Plants analysis

How do scientists analyze plants? Scientist usually give a code to each plant they want to analyze. By using numbers they are able to describe the size, colour, shape, texture and pattern of the plant. We are introducing this methodology to describe petals, leaves, stems, roots and seeds that children brought.

Plants: Cyanotypes

Project exhibition on the school corridors. Good job!

Plants brief

This what we learned about plants. Next week we'll start a new project.

What part of the plant do we eat?

Last week we sorted vegetables by the part of the plant that we eat. We had a lot of fun deciding where each vegetable belonged.

Flowers

Cross section of flowers made by 3D students.

The life cycle of a plant

"The seed" amazing video directed by Johnny Kelly. Children liked it a lot!

 
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

How plants grow

"A tree is a slow explosion of a seed"
Bruno Munari

Plants: Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes were the first way of taking photos before the camera was invented. Cyanotypes use the sunlight to print the colour on a piece of paper covered with chemicals. They are also called blueprints or sunprints. They were discovered 170 years ago and it was Anna Atkins, a botanist, who brought the process into photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books to document ferns and other plants. By using this process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first woman photographer.
This year we made cyanotypes as Anna Atkins did in the past.

Drawing a tree

Bruno Munari's book "Drawing a tree" gave us different methods of learning and drawing trees.

 

Sunflowers

Last week we were talking about sunflowers and found out that many artists were inspired by this kind of plant.

   

Lorraine Schneider                                      Vincent Van Gogh

Life cycle

4th grade students are working on the life cycle of animals and plants.

Are seahorses carnivores? How many eggs can a sea turtle lay? How dofrogs breathe? What do frogs eat? How do seahorses give birth? Are they viviparous? What do they eat? How do dolphins breathe? How do dolphins born? 4th grade D decided to know more about penguins, butterflies, strawberry plants, sea turtles, dolphins, flogs, pear trees and seahorses.

Plants

Plants. How to plant a seed