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This lesson introduces students to a variety of different types of plants and plant structures. Students will work cooperatively in small groups to rotate through a series of varied stations that allow them to explore, identify, and label different parts of several different plants including the parts of a flower, stem and root structures, and vascular tissue. Students will make observations and inferences about the different structures and functions of plant physiology through a hands-on cycle of exploration.

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In this lesson, students will explore the roles of roots and leaves in the process of photosynthesis with hands-on activity and a real world case of an exception in the plant kingdom. Students will compare and contrast the roles of roots and leaves in photosynthesis and relate it with the plant Rafflesia.

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This lesson takes students through a series of observations that will allow students to explore waters path through hand grown plants, examine xylem in celery, and observe stomata from slides they create.

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In this lesson, students will dissect a flower to explore the flower's structures and their functions. Students will also observe the flowers, fruit and cones to discover the similarities and differences in their functions.

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This lesson is intended to provide student with an introduction to the process of transpiration. The goal is to help students understand the process of transpiration and the role that this process plays in plant physiology.

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This is a plant structure and function internet research based lesson. Carnivorous plant structure and function modifications are used compare to the structure and functions of the major organs and tissues of non-carnivorous plants. Internet and student computers are required for this lesson. A carnivorous plant specimen (pitcher plant preferred) and a non-carnivorous plant specimen in the classroom is highly recommended for increased student interest.

Type: Lesson Plan

This video was conceived around the idea that students, particularly those not in AP-level classes, have a practical application for knowing about the major divisions between plants, particularly about the details of plant anatomy and reproduction.

My objectives for this lesson are as follows:

• Students will be able to identify the major evolutionary innovations that separate plant divisions, and classify plants as belonging to one of those divisions based on phenotypic differences in plants.
• Students will be able to classify plants by their pollen dispersal methods using pollen dispersal mapping, and justify the location of a "crime scene" using map analysis.

• Students will be able to analyze and present their analysis of banding patterns from DNA fingerprinting done using plants in a forensic context.

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Students will explore the role and function of the leaf and its microscopic structures by using a cross section of a lilac leaf microscope slide.

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This structured inquiry lesson deals mainly on the preparation of cross-section wet-mounts of the Hibiscus stem, leaf and flower, and their photomicrography. Additionally, students will prepare the extracts of the Hibiscus stem, leaf, and flower, and determine their pH using the Hydrion (pH paper) and universal indicator. This lesson will allow the students to confirm the microscopic structures of the Hibiscus plant parts that could be observed through the photomicrographs, and infer on the chemical nature (acid, base, or neutral) of the plant extract depending on the determined pH values.

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Students will review the unit on the standard SC.912.L.14.7 (relate the structure of each of the major plant organs and tissues to physiological processes) by using Magical Squares. They then will create similes for the major plant organs and tissues and their physiological processes.

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Students will explore the growth and development of plants by growing their own plants and documenting growth and development of major plant organs. Students will also create their own slides to observe and define the role meristematic tissue in the growth of plants.

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Learn about the structure, function, and evolutionary origins of plant tissues and organs with this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Get outside and interact with nature after you watch this idea for teaching about the different parts of plants!

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Type: Perspectives Video: Teaching Idea

This is an inquiry design lab for students to understand transpirational pull of plants. Like all inquiry labs, it is open for more designs than the one presented in the PowerPoint example. The example in the PowerPoint is the easiest to implement in the classroom. It requires a growlite (a bulb that produces the UV light plants need to grow), a fan, a light source with a 100 Watt bulb, Ziplock bags, rope, and plants that are the same (I use petunias).

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This informational text resource is intended to support reading in the content area. Moss is being used as a model system that may hold the key to understanding how all plant and animal cells grow. This article shows how a deeper understanding of cell growth is being established: specifically, how the cytoskeleton directs growth.

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This informational text is intended to support reading in the content area. The text describes a discovery scientists have made regarding a mechanism that regulates the direction in which plants grow.

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This tutorial will help you to understand how plant cells intake water. This animation shows how water is transported from the root systems of plants upwards to the leaves.

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This tutorial will help you to understand phytochromes in plants and how they affect plant growth. Phytochromes are pigment containing proteins that play an important role in plant regulation, including the germination of seeds.

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The cohesion-tension theory describes how fluids move up the xylem to the leaves of a tree. With this tutorial learners will understand how water moves through a plant. Absorption and transpiration work together with cohesion and tension to move fluids from the soil, through the roots, and up through the tops of the tree.

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Paul Andersen explains the major plants structures. He starts with a brief discussion of monocot and dicot plants. He then describes the three main tissues in plants; dermal, ground and vascular. He also describes the plant cells within each of these tissues; epidermis, parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerencyma, xylem and phloem.

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This resource for biology teachers includes a lesson plan section which contains classroom activities, labs and worksheets. The activity sheets are categorized by Science and Literacy, Anatomy, Scientific Method, Cells, Phyla, Evolution and Taxonomy, Genetics, Ecology, and Plants.

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