Why People Need Plants

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students that plants provide people with food, clothing, shelter, and many other things that we use in our daily lives.




ACTIVITY 1:
List three items you use every day.
Trace each of those items back to a plant by drawing a picture.

ACIVITY 2:
Make a list of things that people get from plants. List and discuss each item.


Compare your list with this one:



Food: vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, dairy, etc.
Oxygen: plants make this through photosynthesis
Clothing: cotton jeans, flax, and rayon fabric
Medicine: herbal teas, cancer treatment medicines developed from bark of the Yew tree, active ingredient in aspirin was developed from the bark of willow trees, etc.
Paper: from wood pulp
Furniture: lumber from trees
Cosmetics: plant dyes, plant oil fragrances, nut shell exfoliants in facial wash, etc.
Energy sources: biofuel, firewood, etc.
Shelter: lumber from trees and straw bales for homes.

ACTIVITY 3:



Distribute the following plant products to each group.

Cotton fabric
Flower
Fruit
Maple syrup
Granulated sugar packet
Perfumed vegetable soap
Vegetable
Paper
Wooden object

Discuss the origin of each product. Try to fit the using People Need Plantsworksheet, and fill out the appropriate spaces.
After groups are finished, ask one group where they placed each object.Conclusion: Humans depend on plants for survival. Variation: Instead of doing the worksheet in groups, fill it out as a class while the teacher holds up an example of each item on the list.

The simplest life forms

The simplest life forms

Concept map

Use the words in the cloud to create your own concept map about the simplest kingdoms in your notebook. Write any connecting texts you need.

cloud

Self-assessment

Test. Choose one answer for each question and then check your answers.


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PLANTS II: Plant reproduction

We will use this resource to study the basics of plant reproduction

PLANTS I: plant and flower structure

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES

VOCABULARY

Plant Structure

Copy this drawing in your note book and try to label it correctly 

What Do Different Plant Parts Do?

Plant parts do different things for the plant. Match the different parts of a plant with its definition

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Roots act like straws absorbing water and minerals from the soil. Tiny root hairs stick out of the root, helping in the absorption. Roots help to anchor the plant in the soil so it does not fall over. Roots also store extra food for future use.

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They do many things. They support the plant. They act like the plant's plumbing system, conducting water and nutrients from the roots and food in the form of glucose from the leaves to other plant parts. Can be herbaceous like the bendable stem of a daisy or woody like the trunk of an oak tree.

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Most plants' food is made in them. They are designed to capture sunlight which the plant uses to make food through a process called photosynthesis.

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They are the reproductive part of most plants. Contain pollen and tiny eggs called ovules. After pollination of the flower and fertilization of the ovule, the ovule develops into a fruit.

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Provides a covering for seeds. They can be fleshy like an apple or hard like a nut.

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They contain new plants. They are formed in fruit.

Find the key in this link

Now, lets focus on flower structure

Let´s discover flower structure by using this funny game (abc Bitesize)

Then draw a diagram of a flower labelled with all its parts

(Use this model)

Check your answers here.

READING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY

Plant life cycles

Every living thing goes through changes. Living things grow through different stages. Then they reach the end of their life cycles and die. There are many kinds of plants. Each kind has its own life cycle.

Many plants start their life cycles as a seed. The seed needs certain things or it will not grow into a plant. Sometimes seeds wait in the ground until they can get the things they need. They wait for warmth from the sun. They wait for water. When they have what they need, they start to grow. A tiny little sprout will push out of each seed. The sprouts stretch up until they poke through the dirt and into the air.

The plants continue to grow when they get sunshine and water. The stems grow taller and leaves unfold. More leaves and stems grow on the main stems. The adult plants grow flowers. The flowers of many plants make fruit. The fruit has seeds inside it so more new plants can grow.

New plants look like their parent plants. Seeds from a parent plant will grow into the same kind of plant as the parent. When a seed begins to grow, it is the beginning of another plant life cycle.

Questions:

1) What is the process of living, growing, changing, and dying called? 

2) How do many plants begin? 

3) What two things does a seed need to have with it in the ground to be able to grow? 

 
4) Where can you usually find seeds in a adult plant?

5) What kind of plant will a seed grow into?

You can revise your answers here

Vertebrates

Let's start with some basic vocabulary

suckle, warm, temperature, birth, fur, hard, soft , hair, feathers, eggs, dry, wet, smooth, damp 

Brainpop VIDEO about  VERTEBRATES

Now you are ready to fill in this VERTEBRATES' WORKSHEET

 worksheet key

It is time to summarize the main information about Vertebrates

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Frog dissection

Another vertebrates' video to watch real animals!!

INVERTEBRATES and VERTEBRATES

Before start reading about invertebrates you should remember severals facts about living beings...


Whittaker proposed the five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi,Protista, and Monera in 1959.

As you can see in this flash (please, stop at 1 min. 38 s!!!), Animals (Animalia kingdom) can be classified into two main groups:

• Invertebrates: animals without a spine or backbone
• Vertebrates: animals with a spine or backbone

Let's explore invertebrates by watching this funny animation about the diferent types of invertebrates. Visit this website to know interesting data about invertebrates.

Now, try to find their names in this invetebrates' word puzzle search.

Now, it is time to revise the basics about invertebrates by filling this missing word activity.

Try to see if you can identify some invertebrates and sort them into their appropriate groups.

To finish, use all your knowledge about invertebrates to solve the invetebrates' crossword. If you need some help to solve it, click here 

If you are interested in invertebrates, please visit this link to see amazing invertebrates' photos shooted by the best nature photographers.