Communication
Students will communicate complex ideas using appropriate scientific vocabulary in order to distinguish between different classes of plant life and their various structures.
Collaboration
Students will work together to start seedlings in our district greenhouse with the purpose of creating a school community garden. Students will work together when searching for specimens in particular classes of plant life for further study.
How are different types of plant life related on Earth?
What are the structures and functions of parts of plants?
What role do plants play on Earth?
Written and Oral Discourse - Students will communicate ideas and arguments through writing and through speech
Note taking - Students write key ideas in their lab notebooks so that they may use the resource on labs and other assessments.
Identification - Students will use dichotomous keys to identify different plants used in cultivation and in the field.
Use of Scientific tools - Students will use planting tools and other cultivation tools to successfully start, grow, and observe plant growth.
Microscope Skills - Students will responsibly use microscopes in order to compare the cells of different classes of plant specimens collected in class.
Data Collection & Analysis - Students will be able to collect observational and survey data from the field and display it as a graph as a means of communicating an idea.
Differentiation:
Explicit instruction of expectations for answering questions in complete sentences (TTQA) on formative and summative assessments.
Explicit instruction on lab notebook setup and maintenance throughout the course.
Explicit instruction on reading articles, lab activity instructions, and textbook passages (Bold Words, Headings, Interpreting Diagrams and Charts).
Providing a variety of tools to help students identify different specimens
Review activity and instruction on how to study for closed book exams. Students draw connections between concepts through a visual web of ideas.
HS-LS1-5. Use a model to illustrate how photosynthesis transforms light energy into stored chemical energy.
HS-LS1-3. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
HS-LS1-2. Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
Textbook - Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology James D. Mauseth
Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
Farmer’s Almanac
Johnny Seeds
Various Plant and Fungal Field Guides
Plant Dichotomous Keys
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