What is a Plant?
MS-LS1-4. - Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
Learning Targets
Learning Targets
- Students will classify plants
Success Criteria
Success Criteria
- I can define what it is to be a plant
- I can describe how a plant can be a system
How many plant species are there in the world?
How many plant species are there in the world?
- There are about 391,000 species of vascular plants currently known to science, of which about 369,000 species (or 94 percent) are flowering plants.
What is a Plant?
What is a Plant?
With Your Team...
- create a definition that could apply to all plants.
- create a diagram of a plant including all major parts.
Move and Share...
- send a representative to visit each of the other teams and share ideas
- Your Ideas + Their Ideas = New Ideas!
Plant Classification
Plant Classification
Plants are living organisms that can be classified according to the following:
Questions to Ponder
Questions to Ponder
- How is a plant a system?
- Does a plant have sub-systems?
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