Your task is to complete this journal in order to gain enough knowledge about plants/flowers to develop the World's Best Fictitious Flower! You will work in a team with two other students to develop this artificial flower.
Each team’s task is to invent a flower that can survive in a specified habitat, design pollen of the appropriate size and surface texture to be produced by the flower, and create a pollinator (wind and water are not possibilities!) that can successfully transport the pollen from the male to the female reproductive structure of your plant species. The team should be divided so that one person is the pollen expert, another the flower specialist, and the third person is the pollinator authority. Your team will be provided with cards that specify the habitat in which your flower must survive and the color of your flower. You cannot change the characteristics or habitat. However, you are free to go beyond what the cards indicate in the design and construction of your flower, pollinator, and pollen models. All three must function together so that the flower is reproductively successful and the pollinator is able to obtain what it requires from the flower. Each member of the team will be responsible for either creating a 3-D model or writing a description of the part of the system they are in charge of. For example, the flower expert may decide to construct a 3-D model and label key parts of the flower that the team designs. The pollen expert might want to write a description of the pollen and include a number of illustrations with their work. The pollinator authority may choose to construct a 3-D model of the pollinator and write a short description of how it transports the pollen. |
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