We did a fun project in home school this week. One day we learned about Karl Linneaus, the botanist who developed the system of classifying plants and animals and who was also an artist who made very detailed sketches of plants and animals. (It is the 300th anniversary of his birth this year and, if you are interested, National Geographic has an interesting story about him online.) He sent students out into the world in search of exotic plants and animals. They were then classified, sketched and compiled into a huge book called "Systema Naturea" (I mean the plants and animals, not the students.)
The next day we went out into the world (well, neighborhood anyway) in search of exotic flowers to sketch. We are also learning the parts of a flower and I thought that we could label our sketches Linneaus-style. Even though it is Fall and most flowers are dying, we found a few interesting ones and one surprise too -- a POMEGRANATE BUSH! My kids love pomegranates (mostly for their potential for a mess I think), so they were excited by this find just a block from our house.Anyway, here are the flowers and the accompanying sketches. Pretty impressive, I thought. (So, we're showing off a little.) Both Eva and Ale
x did what we are calling the "fancy flower" (Anybody, if you know the real name, please 
let us know. Its on a vine sort of like honeysuckle) Simon did the "pink flower."
Maybe you noticed -- no labels. When it came to the beautiful blue and white flower . . . well, I had no idea what was the stamin or pistol or what! I will have to do a little more studying and we will get to that later.
2 comments:
I was taken by the 'fancy flower' when I saw it a handful of times this last summer too. To me it is also nameless, we are going to have to find the real name somehow.
I love the kids pictures!
the "fancy flower" common name is the passion vine/flower n the scientfic is passiflora incarnata
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