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Question
Find out the names of any two flowers which are used for making medicines?
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Solution
Cedar and rose are used for making medicines.
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Are there any things in your house which have designs of flowers made on them – like clothes, sheets, vases, etc.?
Children who can bring flowers may bring one or two flowers to class. Remember that you must collect only fallen flowers. Do not pluck any flowers. Make groups of three or four children and look at one flower carefully -
- What is the colour of the flower?
- What kind of a scent does it have?
- What does it look like – a bell, a bowl, a brush or anything else?
- Do these flowers grow in bunches?
- How many petals does it have?
- Are all the petals joined together or separate?
- Outside the petals, can you see any green leafy structure? How many are there?
- Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
- When you touch these, do you find a powdery thing on your hands?
You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.
What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?
Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.
How is rose water used in your house? Is it used as medicine, sweets, lassi or something else? Find out and tell others.
Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.
Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
Do you or anybody else at home know other such songs?
You could do this in groups of five or six each.
- Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
- Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
- Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
- Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
- After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
