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The last time we did anything like this, we didn't have our beloved digital microscope.  I mean, it isn't the super duper expensive high definition thing that I hope to have one day, but for now it is fantastic.

First,  I went outside and started gathering as many different kinds of flowers as I could find, and put them in a plastic bag,

then we got them out and talked a little about how they were different.

I have no idea what you were thinking in this pic, but you look like you were slyly smiling. :D

Our first specimen was this little yellow flower,

and we were so amazed at how much we could see using the microscope,

the male and female parts, and all the tiny little hairs etc.

Then, we cut a flower in half, right down the ovary,

and could see the little oviules that were inside.

We even caught a teeny tiny little worm that was like 1mm long, except he looked huge under the microscope.

Here's another little insect that looked just humongous.

It was quite fascinating to see all the different reproductive parts of the flower, and even the pollen bits.

The variety of shapes and sizes and colors was just crazy.

Nature!

Science!!

G4 W7 Science!

You absolutely love it when we have a lesson that involves scientific experiments and hands-on-edness, and this time, it was observing root hairs.

Once again, Kitchen Science was what we could muster up, but it was still as good, and we took the opportunity to whip out the little digital microscope again to put it to good use.

It impressive to be able to see the little root hairs that a hand lens would have not been adequate enough to have a good picture of.

Then we crushed the root hairs of one of the onion plants and put both of them into bottles, and put in the same amount of water.

At the end of a couple of days, we checked them again, and the water level in the plant that still had its root hairs had gone day more than the one which had had its root hairs smooshed.

Hurray!