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Course, Subject

Biology/Living Environment, Math, Science & Technology, Science (NYS P-12)

Description

This lesson is targeted for Living Environment students in grades 9-12. The content contained in the following presentation delivers important visual and factual information about plant reproduction. The lesson contains both SMART Board resources, as well as United Streaming Videos. Information content includes anatomy of the leaf and the basic plant parts for reproduction including methods of pollen transfer.

Duration

This lesson will take two 40-minute periods.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of the lesson, students will be able to:

Identify layers of the leaf

Label the reproductive organs of flowers

Understand the various methods of pollination

Be able to recognize and describe the reproductive organs of a flower

Materials

SMART Board

LCD projector

Internet

United Streaming access

Student copies of any slides of the presentation, as deemed appropriate by the instructor

Plant Reproduction Unit.notebook

Sample Ticket Out.doc

Sample Grading Rubric.doc

Procedure

1. Students will be led through the SMART Notebook presentation, which is a gradual progression from the reproductive parts of a flower and their function to the parts of a leaf.
2. The students will use the notes portion of the lesson (slides 2-6) to copy down important information into their notebooks.
3. After copying the information that they have received from the notes portion, the students will have the opportunity to depict the male and female reproductive parts of a flower, followed by interactive practice.
4. Once the notes and practice portion of the lesson has ended, a brief video will ensue, which allows the students the opportunity to visually experience the pollination process of a flower by means of insects. Once you have logged into United Streaming, enter in the term "pollination of plants." Then scroll down until you see the video titled: "World of Nature: Spreading the Pollen." This lesson offers students many opportunities throughout the presentation to practice definitions and practice labeling parts of both a flower and a leaf.

Assessment

The students will be assessed through the interactive labeling components, as well as through a question and answering session throughout the lesson. The teacher can offer or require a written assessment or a ticket out, asking the students to recall facts that they had learned from the lesson, and one or two items that they still have questions about.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

S.MS.LS.1.4 Students who demonstrate understanding can 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 reproducti

S.MS.LS.3.2 Students who demonstrate understanding can develop and use a model to describe why asexual reproduction results in offspring with identical genetic information and sexual reproduction results in offspring with genetic variation.

MST4.C.LE.LE.2.1 Students explain how the structure and replication of genetic material result in offspring that resemble their parents.

MST4.C.LE.LE.4.1 Students explain how organisms, including humans, reproduce their own kind.

MST4.C.LE.LE.5.3 Students relate processes at the system level to the cellular level in order to explain dynamic equilibrium in multicelled organisms.