MINI LESSON PLANTS

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MINI LESSON PLANTS

• Kate Kochis

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FLOWER (Fruit)
STEM
Basic Parts
LEAVES
ROOTS (hidden) (Seed)
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Think about Chucks

• Think about the last time you were in line to get
  a garden salad.
• Write down some of the things you put into your
  salad that you think are made of plant parts.

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Possible Plant Parts in Garden Salad

• Roots Radishes, Yams, Carrots
• Stems Asparagus, Celery
• Leaves Lettuce, Spinach
• Fruit Tomato, Cucumber, Green Pepper
• Flower Cauliflower, Broccoli
• Seeds Sunflower Seeds, Beans

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SEEDS Where it all begins

• Consists of a
• Seed Coat (D)
• A young plant (AB)
• Stored Food in the Cotyledons (C)
• Gives rise to leaves and upper stem
• Bottom part of stem
• Plants roots

See Diagram
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SEED DICHOTOMOUS KEY
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ROOTS

• Act as an anchor for the plant in the ground
• Take in minerals and water for the plant

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TAPROOT FIBROUS

• http//www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/virtu
  alplants/ipi_ar1.html
• ASSIGNMENT FOR LATER

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Question

• SO, if the roots take in minerals and water for
  the planthow do you think the minerals and water
  get up to the leaves and the flower?

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STEMS

• The stems main purpose in a plant is to
• 1. Support its structure.
• 2. To transport minerals and water from the
  roots to the leaves and flower.

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DEMOS

• Sweet Celery!
• Because Celery is a stem, it has xylem and phloem
  in it
• If you leave Celery sit in a sugary solution, the
  tubes will transport the sugar up to the
  leavesand make them SWEET.

• Colorful Celery or Carnation
• For the same reasons, celery will also transport
  the dye up to the leaves.

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FLOWERS

• Contain Reproductive Parts
• SEE DIAGRAM
• Sepals Protect the developing flower
• Petals The brightness and smell attract insects
• Stamens Male Reproductive organ
• Stamenfilament anther
• Anther holds pollen
• Pistil Female reproductive organ

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LEAVES

• Take water in and release water (through stomata)
• Help make food for the tree or plant through
  PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Leaves make food for the leaf
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STOMATA

• Stomata are surrounded
• by guard cells that control
• whether the stomata is open
• or closed.
• Allow gas exchange and
• water exchange.
• Transpiration DEMO
• What are some reasons why
• the stomata would be closed?

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PHOTOSYNTHESIS

• 6CO2 6H2O SUNLIGHT? C6H12O6 6O2
• ACT IT OUT!
• http//www.brainpop.com/science/plantsandanimals/p
  hotosynthesis/index.weml?tried_cookietrue

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You are no longer Middle School Students
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Demos and LAB

• Transparency Demo
• Chlorophyll Demo (fluorescence)
• LAB

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Some Activity Ideas

• Flowery Poetry
• Letter Writing
• Find Products

• ONLY IF I HAVE TIME!!!