Provide students a handout with microscope snapshots of each of the structures identified in the lesson. Have students provide a description of the function of each structure and support their ideas with observations they made during their investigation.

Other assessment ideas include the following:

• Provide students another type of flower and ask them to find and identify the same structures identified earlier. Have them take a snapshot of each structure and export the images to a word processing document, where they must provide a description of each structure, including its appropriate name and function.

• Have students create an electronic presentation or web page of five flowers, showing their structures with appropriate identification. Each slide should represent one of the structures and include the an image of each flower’s structure, along with a brief description of the function of the structure and any difference or similarities they observed between the structures. Older students should be able to add the pollinators for each flower.

You may also want to download a version of the Parts of the Flower diagram without the labels.