1. Introduction to Plants
Agenda:
Handout on non-vascular plants
Vascular notes on plants in foldable
Draw and label seeds
Warm Up: new handout
What do you think is the importance of plants to study and understand?
Homework: None
Mon April 14 1

2. KINGDOM PLANTAE Copy on front inside cover of foldable
THE ORGANISMS IN THIS KINGDOM ARE VARIOUS TYPES OF PLANTS
Copy on front inside cover of foldable

3. Overview of Plants:
All plants are multicellular & contain chlorophyll inside of chloroplasts
All plants are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms that reproduce sexually
Many medicines are produced by plants
Plants are very diverse & may be terrestrial or aquatic
Vary in size from 1 mm in width to more than 328 feet
May live a few weeks or some over 5000 years
More than 270,000 plant species identified, but new species still unidentified in tropical rain forests

4. How Plant Adapts to Land
Solutions:
Roots absorb H2O & minerals
Lignin & cellulose in cell walls
Vascular Transport System
Waxy cuticle & stomata with guard cells
Pollen containing sperm
Problems:
Need minerals
Gravity
Increase in Height for Light
Adaptations for Drier environment
Reproduction 6

5. Water Vs.Land Plant Cells
Land plants have a rigid cell wall for support
Water plants cells are less rigid and rely on the water to give them support.
Roots
Land plants have extensive root systems to find water, nutrients and footing, roots are also used for storage
Water plants many do not have roots and absorb nutrients through leaves
            
            
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6. Vascular & Non-Vascular
2 Major Plant Groups:
Vascular & Non-Vascular
Vascular tissue: adapted to carry substances throughout the organism

7. Mosses are food for animals & help form soil & keep it moist.
Nonvascular plants:

8. NON-VASCULAR PLANTS Lack vascular tissue
Use osmosis and diffusion to transport water and nutrients
Do not have “true” roots, stems, & leaves.
Reproduce by sperm & eggs formed at the tip of the “leafy stem”.
Need water source - grow on land near streams & rivers
Small and close to the ground

9. Vascular Plants Seedless – ferns have spores instead of seeds
Have seeds
Gymnosperms – seeds with no covering
Angiosperms – seeds with covering

10. Ferns are seedless vascular plants

11. Ferns reproduce by producing spores on structures on the undersides of their fronds called sori. The fern plant which is the sporophyte produces spores which germinate on free ground growing a prothallus structure (the gametophyte) where the gametes are produced (sperm and eggs). Because of the fact sperm must swim from these structures ferns usually live in damp areas. 21

12. Complete Gymnosperms Reading and Activity
DICOT
PLANTS
NON-VASCULAR
VASCULAR
GYMNOSPERMS
ANGIOSPERMS
MONOCOT
FERNS
MOSSES
Complete Gymnosperms Reading and Activity

13. To Do! Go to back of page 2 and label SEEDS
Get a plastic cup and 2 seeds. 1 sunflower seed one pumpkin seed.
On pg. 2. create a detailed drawing of both seeds and put date next to drawing
Wet a paper towel (not soaking wet/not dry) put seeds into paper towel fold and put into cup.
Put name on cup and place into bin 16

14. To Do Today Tue April 15 Warm Up-
Check seeds - draw, label and water
Gymnosperm notes
Look at gymnosperms – pine cones
Gymnosperm handout
Warm Up-
Name a similarity and difference between a fern and a moss.
Homework: None

15. Seed Check
examine your seeds - what can you label?

16. Complete Gymnosperms Reading and Activity
DICOT
PLANTS
NON-VASCULAR
VASCULAR
GYMNOSPERMS
ANGIOSPERMS
MONOCOT
FERNS
MOSSES
Complete Gymnosperms Reading and Activity

17. Seed-Producing Vascular Plants
Includes two groups – Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
Gymnosperms have naked seeds in cones
Angiosperms have flowers that produce seeds to attract pollinators and produce seeds 19

18. TYPES OF VASCULAR PLANTS
GYMNOSPERMS: Keeps leaves all year and has seeds in cones
ANGIOSPERMS: Loses leaves once a year and has seeds in fruit
Angiosperms are divided into two groups:
Monocots and Dicots 23

19. Vascular Plants with Seeds
Gymnosperms:
*Keep leaves (needles) all year
*Seeds have no covering and
contained in cones

20. Pine Cones

21. Giant Sequoias 21

22. Gymnosperms Contains the oldest living plant – Bristle cone pine
Contains the tallest living plant – Sequoia or redwood 21 25

23. Gymnosperms Coniferophyta are known as conifers
Includes pine, cedar, spruce, and fir
Cycadophyta – cycads
Ginkgophyta - ginkgo
Cycad
Ginkgo 20

24. To Do Today Wed/Thurs April 16&17 Plant dissetion Activity
Check seeds - draw, label and water
Video review
Plant dissetion Activity
Warm Up- explain each answer
Gymnosperms have beautiful flowers to help them reproduce. True False
2. Which of these is NOT a gymnosperm? Cycad, Pine Tree, Ginkgo, They Are All Gymnosperms
3. Gymnosperms have seeds. True False
Wed/Thurs April 16&17

25. Seed Check Examine your seeds - what can you label?
Draw seeds (detail) and put into soil –being careful to no damage roots

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27. Parts of a Flower Lab Activity *handout

28. Apples