The Life Cycle of Plants MST Unit

1. The Life Cycle of Plants MST Unit By: Lourdes Branch & Clara Norales ED. 7204T Dr. Sharon O’Connor-Petruso

2. Table of Contents • Lesson Plans 3 • Key Concepts 4 • Definitions 5 • Lesson 2 6-11 • Lesson 4 12-17 • Lesson 6 18-24 • Filamentality Website 25 • References 26

3. Lesson Plans 1. Parts of a Plant and Their Functions 2. Where Seeds Come from and How Seeds Grow 3. How Seeds Travel The Life Cycle of Plants 4. What Plants Need to Grow and Survive 5.The Benefits of Plants in Our Environment 6. Where Do New Plants Come From?

4. Key Concepts The Life Cycle of Plants 4.2b Food supplies the energy and Materials necessary for growth and repair. Key Concept 3: Describe evidence of growth, repair, and maintenance, such as nails, hair, and bone, and the healing of cuts and bruises. Key Concept 2: Describe basic life functions of common living specimens Key Concept 1: Describe the major stages in the life cycles of selected plants and animals. 4.1c The length of time from beginning of development to death of the plant is called its life span. 5.1a All living things grow, take in nutrients, breathe, reproduce, and eliminate waste. 4.1b Each kind of plant goes through its own stages of growth and development that may include seed, young plant, and mature plant. 5.1b An organism’s external physical features can enable it to carry out life functions in its particular environment. 4.2a Growth is the process by which plants and animals increase in size.

5. Definitions • Plant: Plants are essential for any ecosystem. They provide all the energy for the ecosystem, because they can get energy directly from sunlight. They use a process called photosynthesis to use energy from the sun to grow and reproduce. They also must get nutrients from the soil. Those nutrients get into the soil when decomposers break down waste and dead materials. Plants require space to grow and reproduce. • Life Cycle: a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage

6. Lesson 2 Where Seeds Come from and How Seeds Grow

7. Standards • NCTM Math Skills • Process Standards: Representation • Content Standards: Measurement • NAEP Process Skills • Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume, mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision) • Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints • NAEP Science Content Standard • L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms. • ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students • 1.Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

8. Behavioral Objectives • Students will be able to identify the parts of a seed and their functions. • Students will be able to classify and graph different kind of seeds.

9. Manipulatives Planting seeds

10. Worksheet #1: Classifying Seeds • Create a Bar Graph using the data collected and answer the following questions. • 1. Which kind of seeds has the greatest amount? Seeds You Can Eat and Big Seeds both have 3, so they have the greatest amount. • 2. Which kind of seeds has the least amount? Rough Texture Seeds • 3. Order the kind of seeds from greatest to least.

11. Worksheet # 2: Parts of Seeds worksheet • Lable the following diagram of a seed: • Answer the questions below. • 1. Plant seeds come from • roots. • stems. • fruits and flowers. • None of the above. • 2.  Some seeds are buried by • rain. • chipmunks. • squirrels. • All of the above. • 3.  Seeds planted in the soil need to absorb • oil. • water. • light. • None of the above. • 4.  The embryo grows by using the stored food in the • soil. • seed coat. • endosperm. • All of the above. • 5.  The roots of a new plant take in • sunlight. • minerals and water. germination • fruit. • None of the above. • 6.  The leaves of a plant make • air. • food. • nitrogen. • All of the above. • 7.  When the plant is an adult, it will develop • flowers. • seedlings. • rain. • All of the above. • 8.  The sprouting of a new plant is called • flowering • Seedling • Germination • All of the above

12. Lesson 4 What Plants Need to Grow and Survive

13. Standards • NCTM Math Skills • Process Standards: Representation • Content Standards: Measurement • NAEP Process Skills • Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume, mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision) • Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints • NAEP Science Content Standard • L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms. • ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students • 1.Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

14. Behavioral Objectives • Students will be able to summarize the steps they follow in order to plant their seeds. • Students will be able to describe what their plants need in order to grow.

15. Manipulatives • Materials needed to plant seeds

16. Worksheet # 1: How to Plant a Seed • Using words from the list below, write a summary describing the steps you followed in order to successfully plant your seeds. after first next soon afterward following not long after then as soon as immediately now third before initially on (date) until during later preceding when finally meanwhile second

17. Worksheet # 2: Photosynthesis light energy oxygen carbon dioxide glucose water light energy carbon dioxide water glucose oxygen

18. Lesson 6 Where Do New Plants Come From?

19. Standards • NCTM Math Skills • Process Standards: Representation • Content Standards: Measurement • NAEP Process Skills • Scientific Inquiry: S4.2 Conduct scientific investigations using appropriate tools and techniques (e.g., selecting an instrument that measures the desired quantity—length, volume, mass, weight, time interval, temperature—with the appropriate level of precision) • Technology: T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints • NAEP Science Content Standard • L4.5: Plants and animals have life cycles. Both plants and animals begin life and develop into adults, reproduce, and eventually die. The details of this life cycle are different for different organisms. • ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students • 1.Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.

20. Behavioral Objectives • Students will be able to identify and describe the stages in the life cycle of plants. • Students will be able to access and locate information on the life cycle of plants.

21. Video: Learn About Plants - Life Cycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxaELwrTChs

22. Worksheet # 1:   The Life Cycle of a Plant Label the parts of the life cycle diagram.

23. Scavenger Hunt! • Use the following websites to complete the scavenger hunt for the plant life cycle. Use The Great Plant Escape to complete the majority of the scavenger hunt. Use the fact sheet site on the BBC site to answer the rest of the questions. Read all questions before you begin. Have fun.

24. Scavenger Hunt Worksheet • Plant Structure In a complete sentence explain and give an example of an herbaceous plant? Herbaceous plants are non-woody plants. They can be perennial, like daylilies, or annual like marigolds. In a complete sentence explain and give an example of a woody plant? A woody plant is a plant that uses wood as its structural tissue, woody plants are usually either trees, shrubs, or lianas. • Plant life cycle An annual completes its life cycle in one year growing season. Give one example of an annual Apple.  A plant that needs two growing seasons to complete its life cycle is a ____Biennial_________. • What are the Parts of Plants? This is the part of the plant that carries water and food through the plant. __Stem__ This is the part of the plant that carries and protects the seed. _Seed Coat____ This is the part of the plant that helps the plant to reproduce. ____Flower____ This is the part of the plant that helps to produce the seeds. _Fruit__ This part of the plant takes up nutrients and water from the ground. __Roots___ What is the definition Photosynthesis? The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water • In the space below draw and label a diagram of photosynthesis. • Draw a diagram of the life cycle of the plant. • What are the four things plants need in order to grow properly? Plants need water, sunlight, air (oxygen), soil.

25. Filamentality Website • http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listlifecyclo.html: Our site explores resources on the life cycle of plants. • IntroductionA plant's life cycle describes how long a plant lives or how long it takes to grow, flower, and produce new seeds. Join us and explore the life cycle of plants, and learn the role that each plant part plays as a plant develops. • The Internet Resources General InformationLiving Things: Plants - Helping plants grow is harder than it looks. See what they need to stay alive. Trees and Products We Get From Trees - PowerPoint presentation that lets students know plants give us food, oxygen, clothing, medicine and shelter. Plants Parts and FunctionExploring the Secret Life of Trees - Plants parts and function video Part of Plants - Parts of Plants Poster PhotosyntesisMY FAVE SONG: THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS SONG - Photosynthesis song video. Photosynthesis Poster - Visual Traveling SeedHow Seeds Travel - Power Point Presentation Parts of the Seed - Plant seeds come from flowers and fruits in many shapes and sizes. Life Cycle of PlantsLearn About Plants - Plants Life Cycle Video

26. References • Barrios, P., & Vanzet, G. (2000). My plant . Barrington, Ill.: Rigby. Aaronsproject. (n.d.). • Discovering the Plant Life Cycle Internet Scavenger Hunt. (n.d.). Synergetics DCS. Retrieved May 6, 2011, from docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:eMIhwl8mPpAJ:www.synergeticsdcs.com/ns/html/services/Teacher%2520Resources/Webpage/Updates/12-21%2520Updates/School%2520Districts/Oktibbeha%2520County/Scavenger%2520Hunts/Discovering%2520the%2520Plant%2520Life%2520Cycle% • Google Image Result for http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/images/plant-life-cycle.jpg. (n.d.). Google. Retrieved May 9, 2011, from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/images/plant-life-cycle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jasons-indoor-guide-to-organic-and-hydroponics-gardening.com/plant-life-cycle.html&h=458&w=469&sz= • Green, S. (n.d.). How Seeds Travel. Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents. Retrieved May 6, 2011, from http://www.slideshare.net/belleminjuan/how-seeds-travel • Hibbert, C. (2004). Life of an apple. Chicago, IL: Raintree. • Parts of the Seed Lesson & Worksheet - My Schoolhouse - Online Learning. (n.d.). My Schoolhouse - Free Elementary Lessons - Free Elementary Worksheets - Middle School Lesson Plans & Worksheets. Retrieved May 5, 2011, from http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/125.asp • Photosynthesis Poster. (n.d.). Marko the Pencil. Retrieved May 6, 2011, from www.markothepencil.com/pages/photosynthesis-poster.gif • Plant Parts Poster. (n.d.). Marko the Pencil. Retrieved May 6, 2011, from http://www.markothepencil.com/pages/plant_parts-poster.gif • Plants We Eat Worksheet . (n.d.). Worksheet Place. Retrieved May 6, 2011, from worksheetplace.com/index.php?function=DisplaySheet&sheet=Plants-We-Eat&links=2&id=&link1=241&link2 • Royston, A. (1998). Life cycle of an apple. Des Plaines, Ill.: Heinemann Library. • Seeds and Growing Plants.. (n.d.). Memorial University. Retrieved May 5, 2011, from www.mun.ca/LTS/files/SeedsandGrowingPlants.ppt • Spilsbury, L., & Spilsbury, R. (2006). How do plants grow?. Chicago, Ill.: Heinemann Library. • Spilsbury, L., & Spilsbury, R. (2006). Why do plants have flowers?. Chicago, Ill.: Heinemann Library. • The Life Cycle of a Plant. (n.d.). The Seed Site . Retrieved May 3, 2011, from theseedsite.co.uk/lifecycle.html • Trees and the Products We Get from Them. (n.d.). Oregon State University. Retrieved May 5, 2011, from owic.oregonstate.edu/pubs/trees • Williams, R. L., & Connelly, G. (1994). We can eat the plants. Cypress, CA: Creative Teaching Press. • YouTube - MY FAVE SONG: THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS SONG . YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. . Retrieved May 5, 2011, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_uez5WX1o