1. DO NOW What do you think is inside of a plant’s seed? Date: 2/17
Q: How do plants respond to their environment?
What do you think is inside of a plant’s seed?

2. How do plants respond to their environment?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do plants respond to their environment?
OBJECTIVES:
-Watch Video on Seed Germination
-Observe Seedlings, record observations, and create a new variable for the seedlings
-Guess the Plant
-Read about Seed Germination

3. Video
Seed Germination

4. Guess the Plant!
Guess what type of plant grows from the following pictures of their seeds

5. Guess the Plant!
What’s the plant?
Peas

6. Guess the Plant!
What’s the plant?
Oak Tree

7. Guess the Plant!
What’s the plant?
Dandelion

8. Guess the Plant!
What’s the plant?
Sunflower

9. Turn and Talk
Why do plants have different seed structures?

10. Germination Reading
Use the ‘Germination’ reading to answer the following questions in complete sentences on page _____:
What word is used to describe plants in their inactive state?
What do plants need to germinate?
What is another word for the root that first emerges from the plant?
What is the shoot that contains the stems and leaves called?
What are some factors that can cause poor germination?

11. Seed Dissection On page ____Create the following T-Chart.
Before you open the seed, draw what you think it might look like inside on the left.
Open the seed and draw your observations on the right..
PREDICTION
OBSERVATION

12. Seed Dissection Label the parts of the seed that you observe:
-Seed Coat
-Young plant (radicle and plumule)
-Cotyledon
(embryo)

13. DO NOW What conditions are necessary for a seed to sprout? Date: 2/19
Q: How do plants respond to their environment?
What conditions are necessary for a seed to sprout?

14. How do plants respond to their environment? OBJECTIVES:
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do plants respond to their environment?
OBJECTIVES:
-Observe Phototropism and Geotropism seed lab experiments
-Flowering Plant Dissection & Plant Anatomy Diagram
-2 Column Notes: Phototropism/Geotropism
-4 square review

15. Turn-N-Talk
Summarize the following tropisms with your partner, identifying the stimulus and response in each: Phototropism Geotropism Hydrotropism

16. Video Review
Tropisms

17. Seed Lab, Week 1 Draw your seedlings in the row titled ‘After 1 week.’
Label any evidence of phototropism or geotropism.
3. Label the parts of your seedlings including the radicle, the seed coat, and the plumule.

18. Flowering Plant Dissection
Tape Flower Anatomy Diagram on page _____
Draw the following table on page _____
Flower Part
Number Found
Average Length (cm)
Function
Sepal
Petal
Stamen
Pistil
Ovary
Ovule

19. Flowering Plant Dissection
Purpose: To observe plant anatomy and understand how structures play a role in reproduction.
Fill out your flower anatomy diagram using the information provided at your lab station.
Follow the directions on your sheet to perform the flower dissection.
Fill out your flower anatomy data table as you dissect your plant.
Tape flower parts to the diagram in the appropriate spot.

20. BrainPop: Plants
Plant Growth

21. DO NOW How do plants reproduce? Date: 2/20
Q: How do plants respond to their environment?
How do plants reproduce?

22. ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do plants respond to their environment?
OBJECTIVES:
-Unit Quiz: Plants
-Go over Quiz

23. VIDEO
What is soil?

24. FLOWER DISSECTION: JOBS
STUDENT A: Microscope Manager STUDENT B: Slide Manager STUDENT C: Clean Up Manager STUDENT D: Lab Manager

25. SOIL LAB
Using a microscope, you will create a slide to observe the material that makes up soil.
On the top of page___draw your observations as you see them through the microscope.
On the bottom of the page, answer the following questions:
What do you think makes up the soil?
Why is soil so important to the earth?

26. Reading: Soil
Read the article on soil, and answer the following questions:
What is soil made of?
Name three functions of soil.
List and describe the 6 layers of the soil profile.