Classification of plants

Flowering and non-flowering plants

Activity one: Let us talk

In pairs, talk about:

  1. Plants found in your surroundings.
  2. The colour of plants found in your surroundings.
  3. Whether all plants found in your surroundings have flowers.

Activity two: What do you see?

Look at the pictures below. Talk about them with your deskmate.

  1. Identify the plants with flowers.
  2. Identify the plants without flowers.
  3. Name two plants in your surroundings that produce flowers.
  4. Name two plants in your surroundings that do not produce flowers.

Activity three: Discovery time

Did you know that maize, grass and pawpaw plants produce flowers?
Look at their flowers circled in the plants below.

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Activity four: Think and answer

Study the following pictures.

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  1. What is common in pictures a, b, c and d?
  2. What is common between pictures a and c?
  3. What is common between pictures b and d?

Now I know that:

We can group plants according to their common characteristics. Look at the following diagram.