Week 6

What I learned this week. 

 In the lab this week, I learned about flower dissection. Learned that there are female parts and male parts. The female parts are the stigma and ovary, and the male parts are the anther and filament. I also learned about cross-pollination. This is when a bee takes pollen from one flower and transfers it to another flower. I learned this during our activity in the lab, where we stabbed the bee and used the dead bee to pollinate our fast-growing plants. I learned that this activity that we did will eventually help our plant grow even bigger. 

What would you bring to your future teachings?

I will definitely do an activity like the pollination one we did in the lab when I am a future teacher. I don't think I am going to use the dead bees in the activity because I think that might scare elementary school students. I think if I did this lesson, I would use the pollination sticks that were shown in the video we watched during the lab. I thought the idea of the activity was really cool and a good demonstration of pollination. 

Some questions that I have after this class are: 

How does a bee pollinate a flower if it is dead? How does the pollination process specifically work with the bees? Does the