I have been taking close-ups of the flowers in my garden, and the beauty is breathtaking! Some of these flowers are barely half an inch in diameter, yet the details are striking.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details. (Natalie Angier)

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What are the parts of a flower and what is a flower’s role?

Click here for a lab about flower dissection.

For a flower-themed STEM project, click here. During the first part of this lab, we investigated and experimented with various sizes of flowers and types of paper. It turned into a STEM activity, when students designed an object of their own to test.

Click here for a lab about pollination.

Click here to watch a Study Jam about flowers.