Thursday, January 31, 2013

Botany- Week 11: Ferns

We are studying ferns this week!  Here are some cool resources to look at online:

This website covers the fern lifecycle in more detail than what we learned about in the book. It will use some terms you do not know, but it has great pictures of each stage of the fern lifecycle!

 This is a good microscopic picture of a fern prothallus.

 This is a good microscopic picture of a fern antheridia.

 This is a good microscopic picture of a fern archegonia.

 Lastly, this website has a good discussion of ferns, with pictures. If you continue to click on "next page," you will get pages that discuss their lifecycle. There are great pictures on those pages, too.

I hope you learned a lot about ferns this week!  We should have fun trying to find a prothallus and little fiddleheads at Nana's this spring and summer!  :)

<3 Mama

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