Section outline

  • Context: 


    * Due to the Covid-19 Alert (Level 3), classes remain active via distant learning online.  The most important aim is to ensure students stay safe and calm and still experience some level of normality during this period of nationally enforced self-isolation.

    * Using Google Meet as our online lesson platform; instructions have been given to students so the new format of routine and expectations can be established.

    * Catch-up week for students


    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING on plant biology so as to develop a good understanding of plant systems and plant reproduction.
    • We are FOCUSING on flower in order to identify the female and male parts of the flower and their key functions.
    • We are FOCUSING on the photosynthesis and plant vascular system so that we learn how they work, and how to sketch their diagrams, to name and label the different parts involved.


    Success Criteria: (Students can...)

    • identify the different parts of a flower, especially the male and female parts
    • describe the main functions of the flower parts
    • explain the main functions performed by photosynthesis and the vascular system
    • use a diagram to clearly map out, label and/or illustrate the above plant biology


    Activities & Learning Tasks:

    1. Education Perfect task to learn more about the plant section of the living world; such as: How do plants grown? How different or similar are plants from animal or even us human-beings??  How the plant systems work? And how they reproduce.
    2. SciPad online workbook tasks (under Botany): The Plant, Plant Reproduction
    3. Learning Journey (precursor of Science Report Writing) on Plant Biology, covering these Learning Foci:

    PART ONE - Flower Parts
    -> draw a flower diagram to clearly label the parts, briefly describe the function/s of each part

    -> make connections of the flower parts with the fruit that the flower will grow to be; if the part still exists in the fruit stage, describe its function/s

    PART TWO - Plant's Vascular System
    -> define what this is, and name the main parts involved in this
    -> draw a diagram of a stem to clearly show xylem and phloem, and describe their functions
    -> explain how they work, and their importance

    PART THREE - Photosynthesis
    -> draw a leaf diagram (a cross-section to show a magnified leaf's layers)
    -> label the parts in a leaf, briefly describe the function/s of each part
    -> explain how photosynthesis works, and its importance