Do First: 11/2 Common Assessment Reflection

1. Do First: 11/2 Common Assessment Reflection • 1. General thoughts on the common assessment. • Free Response: 1. how do you think you did? • 2. Was it challenging, easy or just right? • 3. Did you feel prepared for the Free Response? • Multiple Choice: 1.how do you think you did? 2.Was it challenging, easy or just right? • 3. Did you feel prepared for the Multiple Choice? • 4. Any more questions about Common Assessment?

2. Do Second:What do you know about plants? Draw these shapes in your notebook. Describe the plants your tables. Brainstorm what you know about plants with your table What do all plants need?

3. What is a plant?

4. Exit Ticket: • What are 4 characteristics of all plants? • Define “autotroph.” • What are the three basic parts of all plants?

5. Do First: 11.3 • 1. What are characteristics of all plants? • 2. What are the needs of plants? • 3. Are humans autotrophs? • 4. Do plants have organs?

6. Planting Seeds! • Each table will receive a Ziploc bag, one cotton ball, and one bean seed. • Write your table name and period at the bottom of their bags (with a marker if possible). • Soak the cotton ball in water. • Flatten out the cotton ball, but don’t squeeze the water out. • Bury the seed inside the cotton ball. • Open the Ziploc bag and tape the cotton ball with the seed about 4 inches down inside the bag. • Grab a second cotton ball and soak it in water and squeeze some more water into the cotton ball that contains the seed.

7. Planting Seeds • Now zip shut the bag. • Tape your bag to the window, near your period sign.

8. Planting Seeds

9. Do First: November 4, 2010 Person number 1 will go to the window and observe their plant. • What are the levels of organization? • Name an example of a level of organization in the human body. • Do plants have organs? • Person 1: Please share observations with your table.

10. Do plants have organs? • Observe the plant at your table to determine if plants have organs.

11. What are the levels of organization?

12. Levels of organization in a plant:

13. The plant

14. Practice: What level is this?

15. Practice: What level is this?

16. Practice: What level is this?

17. Practice: What level is this?

18. Practice: What part is this?

19. Practice • List the levels of organization • Draw a picture for each level of organization. • Name that level of organization in the plant.

20. Do First: November 5,2010 Person number 2 will go to the window and observe their plant. • Do plants have organs? • What is an example of a plant organ? • What are the 2 major organ systems of a plant? • Plant observations: day 3/Person 2

21. Xylem and Phloem

22. What part of the plant is it?

23. What part of the plant is it?

24. What part of the plant is it?

25. What part of the plant is it?

26. Plant Poster Expectations • Draw a plant. • Label major organs and organ systems. • Include the function of each organ. • Include basic needs of plants (draw and label them) • Draw a plant cell and label its 7 organelles.

27. Do First: 11.8 Person number 3 will go to the window and observe their plant. Label the parts of the plant and then answer these questions on the back. • 1. What are the major organs of a plant? • 2. What is the function of the leaf? • 3. What is the function of the stem? • 4. How are xylem and phloem different?

28. What is this? A Seedling Shoots Roots

29. SEEDS! Using page 331, read about seeds. As you are reading, complete your chart on seeds. Answer these questions as well: • What are the three parts of a seed? • How do seeds sprout?

30. How does a seed become a seedling? • http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/earlygrowth/germination/germ.html

31. What is a seed? A seed contains a baby plant, stored up energy, and a protective seed coat.

32. What do seeds need? • Seeds need water to sprout or grow. • Once the seed receives water, it ” awakens” or germinates,

33. What happens next? • The seeds absorb so much water, that the force of the water pressure pushes open the seed.

34. Another way to say it.., • The dry seed absorbs water, the plant cells get bigger and the plant breaks out of the seed.

35. 6. The ____________ plant gets_________ and pushes out of the soil. 7. The ______________ of the shoot straightening up _______________ the seed leaves above the ground. Another way to say it… • The growing plant gets larger and pushes out of the soil. • The force of the shoot straightening up pulls the seed leaves above the ground.

36. From seed to plant….

37. Exit Ticket • Name a force that helps seeds become seedlings.

38. Do First: 11.9 Person number 4 will go to the window and observe their plant. • 1. What is the difference between xylem and phloem? • 2. What is the function of seeds? • 3. What “wakes” up seeds and begins the growing process? • 4. Why would farmers soak their seeds in water before planting them?

39. Big Question: • What would happen if a seedling got turned around? • Would the roots grow up and the shoots grow downward?

40. This is what happens

41. Describe the seedlings in your notes. Shoot root

42. Why does this happen? http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/tropism/tropisms.html

43. Why does this happen? • Plants are able to sense gravity and respond to changes in position. • This response is called geotropism.

44. Why does this happen? • Rootswill bend and grow downwards, towards the center of the Earth. • Shoots will bend and grow upwards, or away, from the surface of the Earth.

45. Not just for seedlings…. • Grown plants also respond to geotropism. • Their roots will grow downward and their shoots will grow upward.

46. Thinking Ticket: • Name two forces that affect seedling growth. • Define geotropism. • Describe what happens to a plant that falls on its side. Will the shoots and roots continue to grow sideways?

47. Do First: 11.11 • 1. List the levels of organization within plants. • 2. What are the two major organ systems? • 3. What is the function of vascular tissue? • 4. Why do seeds get larger before they sprout? • 5. Why do roots grow down and shoots grow up? Person number 2 will go to the window and observe their plant.

48. Hmmmm…… • What is geotropism? • How do you think plants will grow in space? • Draw a picture of what you think the shoots and roots will look like.

49. This is what they look like:

50. Do First: 11.12 Person number 3 will go to the window and observe their plant. • List the organelles in a plant cell. • What is the function of the vacuole? • What is the function of the cell wall? • What provides structure for the plant?