Students pull the sepals and petals from the flower.
Students rub the stamen against the dark paper.
A magnifying glass is used to see if anything was left on the dark paper. Students rub the stamen over the pistil. A magnifying glass is used to study the pistil. Students use toothpicks to open the ovary and then look at it through the magnifying glass. Students write what they saw while observing the parts of a flower.