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Engage students with a matching activity on the products that come from plants. Cut and place the pictures around the room for students to match the products with the plants. Use the PowerPoint as an answer key.
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Plants and Their ProductsActivity for the classroom on the products we use that come from plants Laura B. Vary & Jennifer J. Weber
Instructions • Each slide has the plant picture on the left and the product on the right. • Each slide should be cut in half and the different pictures placed around the room. • Students then have to match the plant with the correct product. • Teachers can use the powerpoint as the answer key. • When possible, replace pictures with ACTUAL ITEMS
Rubber Plant (Ficus elastica; Moraceae) Rubber Ball
Coffee plant (Coffea arabica; Rubiaceae) Coffee
Cacao (Theobroma cacao; Malvaceae) Chocolate
Cotton plant (Gossypium hirsutum; Malvaceae Cotton t-shirt
Corn (Zea mays; Poaceae) Popcorn
Corn (Zea mays; Poaceae) Soft drinks, cola
Willow (Salix; Salicaceae) Aspirin
Olive tree (Olea europaea; Oleaceae) Olive Oil
Aloe (Aloe vera; Asphodelaceae) Aloe vera lotion
Photo credits • Rubber plant: http://www.krika.com/Tropical%20Garden/Montserrat%20Tropical%20Garden%20R.html • Rubber ball: http://www.sporting-chance.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=556 • Coffee plant:http://www.bijlmakers.com/fruits/coffee_arabica.htm • Coffee cup: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_small_cup_of_coffee.JPG • Cacao plant:http://www.laestic.com/html/images/plantacacao.jpg • Chocolate bar: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_K2JIxITMTV8/SwPgx7eKsMI/AAAAAAAAADo/Zv60dS8jxrc/s1600/chocolate.png • Cotton plant:http://ipm.ncsu.edu/cotton/InsectCorner/photos/images/Open_cotton_plant.jpg • Cotton t-shirt: http://www.brandxs.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/A/A/AA-1-A__1.jpg • Corn:http://soilcrop.tamu.edu/photogallery/cornsorghum+/images/corn%20ears.jpg • Popcorn: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/popcorn-1.jpg • Cola: http://www.ksl.com/emedia/slc/174/17402/1740280.jpg • Willow:http://www.instantplants.ie/photo/thumb/Salix%20Alba%20Tristis.jpg • Aspirin: http://bigmikescience.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/aspirin.jpg • Wheat: http://www.impactlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wheat-production.jpg • Bread: http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/307/805bread.jpg • Olive tree: http://www.quranandscience.com/images/stories/olive_tree.jpg • Olive oil: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/how-olive-oil-works-3.jpg • Aloe plant: http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/aloe-vera-plant.jpg • Aloe vera lotion: http://brandcom.unilever.com/b2Public/vaseline/en-AU/article/Consumer/OurProducts/AloeFresh/mainColumnParagraphs/08/articlePgImageLocalImageData/Vaseline_AloVera_AU.png