Plant Life

Lesson 1

Flowering and Nonflowering

Plants

Science 3
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Big Question

Why are plants important to humans,

animals, and the environment?

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Real-Life Link

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Learning Targets

In this lesson, the learners will do the following:

● recall the parts of a flowering plant
● recognize that some plants bear flowers,
and some plants do not
● give examples of plants in the community that are flowering (e.g.
fruit trees, palms, ornamentals, grasses) and nonflowering (e.g. pine,
fern, mosses)

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Let’s Learn

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Flowering Plants

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Parts of a Flowering Plant

A flowering plant has five major parts:

● root
● stem
● leaf
● flower
● fruit

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Parts of a Flowering Plant

The root serves as an anchor of the plant

to the soil. Most roots grow under the soil.
Water and minerals are absorbed by the
root from the soil.

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Parts of a Flowering Plant

The stem serves as the backbone of the

plant. The plant is kept upright by the
stem. It carries water and minerals from
the
roots to the rest of the plant.

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Parts of a Flowering Plant

The green, flat blades of the

plant are its leaves. It helps
the plant produce its own
food through photosynthesis.

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Parts of a Flowering Plant

A flowering plant has flowers that serve

as its reproductive organ. Flowers develop
from buds.
Most flowers have colorful petals,
making them attractive. Flowers are
mainly involved in pollination.

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Parts of a
Flowering Plant

Flowers mature and turn into

fruits. Fruits vary in shape,
size, color, smell, and taste.

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Fruits contain seeds. These seeds can
end up in the soil through wind and
water movements and the actions
of insects. They develop into another
plant of the same kind.

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With the right amount of water, air, and good soil quality, the
seed begins to grow. This process is called germination.

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Small roots will first grow, then stem, and leaves.
A seedling or sprout is produced when the development is already
visible above the soil.

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Nonflowering Plants

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There are two types of nonflowering plants.
The classification is based on how they reproduce. Their spores and
cones are light enough to be carried by blowing winds.

Fern plant Pine tree

An example An example of
of a primitive, a cone-bearing,
nonflowering plant nonflowering plant

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Primitive
Nonflowering Plants

These plants do not produce seeds.

They have very simple structures and
plant parts. They produce tiny spores
that scatter through air.

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Cone-bearing Nonflowering
Plants

These coniferous plants produce

naked, unprotected seeds. This group
includes pines, firs, cedars, and
spruces.

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 Big Idea
Plants provide food, fiber, shelter, medicine,
and fuel. They are the only source of food and
oxygen, and no animal can provide these on its
own.

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 Remember
● Flowering plants produce flowers to
reproduce.
● Fruits are one way for plants to spread
their seeds.
● Nonflowering plants reproduce through
seeds or spores.

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