Section outline

  • Kia Ora Scientists,

    Learning Objective- Understand the basic anatomy and physiology of plants

    Success Criteria:
    1. Explain the anatomical mechanisms that allow plants to transpire
    2. Explain how plants make food (glucose) via photosynthesis in their leaves
    3. Conduct an investigation that tests the theory "leaves make starch using sunlight"
    4. Describe the reproductive organs of plants and explain how new plants are reproduced
    5. Dissect and identify parts of a flower
    6. Describe how fertilisation occurs in plants
    7. Describe how seeds are dispersed and its advantages

    Activities:

    1. Stomata printing lab
    2. Describe the role of photosynthesis in plants
    3. Starch testing geranium leaves
    4. Make a model of a flower
    5. Flower dissection
    6. Seed hunt
    7. Make a paper helicopter to mimic 

    Further Learning:All learning resources are posted on Google Classrooms