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LESSON PLANS WITH OBJECTIVES - PLANTS
I AND II. PLANT ANATOMY
OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify the basic structures of plants.
2. List the 3 tissue types of plants and the general function of
each.
3. Name the substances that flow through the xylem and those
that flow through the phloem.
4. List 4 ways plant and animal cells differ.
LESSON PLANS
1. Show the video on Riverview Farms and discuss the focus
questions
2. Display a variety of plants to introduce the diversity of plants.
Use these plants to describe the external structures of a plant.
3. Use Unit 3 power point presentation slides 1 – 11 to identify the
various plant structures, both external and internal.
4. Student activities:
Plants disassembled learning activity – Give each team of
students a bag of plant parts that you have prepared. The bag
should contain leaves, pieces of stem, pieces of roots, flowers,
and fruits. Have students sort the pieces by type of structure. Ask
them to analyze what characteristics they used to classify each
category. Relate those characteristics to the function of each
particular plant part.
Worksheet on plant cells versus animal cells- Have each
student draw a plant and animal cell, on the worksheet, putting in
only those structures which are different between those cells.
III. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe how water moves from roots to stems to leaves.
2. Identify 3 factors which will effect transpiration.
3. Define photosynthesis and state the location of the process.
4. State the formula, in words, for photosynthesis.
5. Name the plant structure which is the “source” of glucose and
the structure which is the “sink”.
6. Define endogenous rhythm.
7. Name 5 classes of plant hormones and the general effect they
have on plants.
8. Describe how carbon dioxide, minerals, and water are each
absorbed by plants.
LESSON PLAN:
1. Use Unit 3 power point presentation slides 12 - 38 to
present the information on plant physiology.
2. Include these demonstrations:
a. Celery stalk in glass of water with food color to show
uptake of water through the xylem
b. A small chain to help students visualize how water
molecules move up the xylem as they are pulled by the
water molecule above them. Be sure to emphasis that
it is the power from the sun evaporating the molecules
from the stoma.
3. Use the worksheets on comparing vascular tissue in an
animal and plant to help students grasp the differences.
4. Have students draw a plant and label the points of entry of
water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide. They could also use
different colors to indicate the direction of movement of
water and sugars.
5. As you show the slides on plant hormones, have the
students fill in the Plant Hormones Worksheet.
III. PLANT LIFE/SOIL LIFE RELATIONSHIPS
OBJECTIVES:
1. Describe the 3 types of symbiotic relationships.
2. Explain the legume-rhizobia relationship and the myccorhizal
relationship.
LESSON PLANS:
1. Use Unit 3 power point presentation slides 39-42 to present
material on plant life – soil life interactions.
2. Display some Spanish moss on a branch, a clover plant
(including roots), and a diseased plant. Describe the three
types of symbiotic relationships and have students determine
the two organisms involved in each, and what type of symbiotic
relationship each has.
3. Use illustrations of rhizobia and mycorrhiza to describe the
rhizobial relationship with legumes and the mycorrhizal
relationship. Tell how forest trees will not grow without their
mycorrhiza.