Plant Growth & Development

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4. Results/Data/Observations

5. Conclusion/ What I Learned

Alabama Course of Study7.) Describe the life cycle of plants, including seed, seed germination, growth, and reproduction.

• Describing the role of plants in a food chain• Identifying plant and animal cells• Describing how plants occupy space and use light, nutrients, water, and air• Classifying plants according to their features

Examples: evergreen or deciduous, flowering or nonflowering

• Identifying helpful and harmful effects of plantsExamples:- helpful-provide food, control erosion;- harmful-cause allergic reactions, produce poisons

• Identifying how bees pollinate flowers• Identifying photosynthesis as the method used by plants to produce food

Plant Growth and Development

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# Lesson Title Date1 Plants KWL

Pre Unit Assessment

Brainstorm everything you know (or think you know) about plants.

Date

Lesson 1: Plants KWLQuestion: What do you KNOW about plants?

Pre Unit Assessment

Brainstorm everything you wonder about plants.

Question: What do you WONDER about plants?

We are botanists! Scientists that study plants.

Write one or two words to describe the seed you are observing today.

Inside Participant’s Guide TH-3

Activity Sheet 1, continued…

Draw your dry bean seed.

Draw and label the inside of your soaked bean seed

Plant Growth and Development

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# Lesson Title Date1 Plants KWL

2 Inside a Seed

For each student: 1 dry bean seed 2-3 soaked bean seeds Hand lens 1 paper towel

Write one or two words to describe the seed you are observing today.

How is the soaked bean seed different from the dry bean

seed?

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STC Plant Growth and Development Lesson 2: What Is Inside a Seed?

Now peel off the seed coat.

Gently pry open the two halves of the seed.

Use your hand lens to observe the parts ofthe seed.

STC Plant Growth and Development Lesson 2: What Is Inside a Seed?

Activity Sheet 1, continued…

Draw your dry bean seed.

Draw and label the inside of your soaked bean seed

Take another soaked bean seed and observe it closely,

inside and out.

Are the two bean seeds similar?

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STC Plant Growth and Development Lesson 2: What Is Inside a Seed?

Embryo: undeveloped plant that includes all the parts of a mature plant. baby plant

Cotyledon: Contains food- oils, carbohydrates and protein. This provides energy for the initial underground growth of the plant. Becomes the seed leaf.

Seed coat: protects these delicate internal structures.

Inside a Bean Seed TH-4

Waxed paper

Cardstock

Model of a Bean Seed

Some Questions to Ponder

•Are all seeds the same?

•What would happen if we planted our seed?

•What kinds of seeds do we eat?

Possible Extension Idea: “Grass Babies”• Materials: knee high panty hose, soil, fast

growing seeds – fescue, eyes, hot glue gun, and a rubber band. Place seeds at the toe of the hose, fill with soil, make ears and nose with rubberbands, and tie off the end with another rubberband. Water well!