Section outline


  • The Anatomy of Bananas

    Mrs Williamson is back this week

    Success criteria (I can...)

    • Define words such as anatomy, biology, botanical, endocarp, mesocarp, exocarp, negative geotropism
    • Describe the structure of a true berry
    • Draw and label the parts of a berry
    • Fairly mark my assessment and understand how feed forward words to help me next time


    Activities in class

    1. This week Mrs Williamson was back in class to introduce us formally to our context - The Anatomy of Bananas.
    2. We created our title page.
    3. We started discovering about bananas and that they are grown on plants not trees, and that they are a berry.
    4. We learnt the true biological definition of a berry - including words such as exocarp, endocarp and mesocarp.
    5. We identified which fruits are vegetables are classified as true berries.
    6. We learnt a little on suffixes and prefixes used in science e.g. bio - , - logy, geo - 
    7. We searched why bananas are curved and learnt how to break down difficult words so we can understand them e.g. negative geotropism.
    8. We also participated in marking our assessment together as a class and online to understand more about the marking structure and what teachers are looking for.