Leaf Matching
Leaf Matching Instructions
- Find two leaves that you think look exactly alike. Same size. Same shape and color.
- Put them on something flat, one leaf on top of the other.
- If you see any part of the bottom leaf sticking out – get another, because these leaves don’t match.
- If you have two leaves where you don’t see any part sticking out even if you turn them over, then you have found a match.
Congratulations!
… Next Steps
- OK. So now you have two leaves the same shape and size. But are they really, truly identical?
- Try this! Hold them up to the light.
How about the veins? They are the little lines flowing out from the stem of the leaf. - Compare the ways those veins run in each leaf. Hmmmm…what do you think? Do the vein-lines match, too?
- Or are leaves perhaps like snowflakes or people, with no two exactly alike?
Think about that one!
“Food for thought” as Bok likes to say.
