- Mon 5/13: Notes on Flowers. Hand out Hoyt Arboretum Field Trip Permission Slip. Read 38.1.
- Tues 5/14: Finish notes on flowers: monocots vs. dicots. Flower Dissection. Read 38.2.
- Thurs 5/16: Notes on Plant Hormones. Auxin, Phytochromes, Gibberellin. Videos on Plant Pollinators. Bring your Field Trip Permission Slip signed by Monday!! Read 39.2 and 39.3
- Mon 5/20: SPARK Lecture today on Ground Water Quality (3:30 in 169). Signed Permission Slip due. Recognizing plants in Hoyt Arboretum.
- Tues 5/21: Get to class as soon as possible. Come prepared for all weather and bring your Tri-Met bus pass!
- Thurs 5/23: Incredible video on plants!! Answer video notes and turn in. Hand out Plant Review.
Plant Test on Thursday, 5/30. Test moved to Monday 6/3. Begin writing answers to the review.
Friday, May 17, 2013
5/13-5/23
Sunday, May 5, 2013
4/29-5/10
Remember that the Seed Germination Lab is due Thursday, May 16th! You need to get your data taken soon so that you can complete the write-up on time!
- Mon 4/29: Brainstorm plant questions, share with small group, and then share out with large group.
- Tues 4/30: Plant origins and roots. Leaf worksheet. Answer questions on side 1 and color side 2. Get checked off. Skim Chapter 29.
- Thurs 5/2: Notes on stems. Gather plant parts in the Lincoln Yard. Get 10 different leaves, 3 roots and 3 stems. In the classroom, draw 5 leaves, 2 roots, and 1 stem. Label all the parts that you can and then write a caption describing the features of each sample (color, texture, where it was found, special features). Read 35.1.
- Mon 5/6: Notes on plant growth. Finish drawings and turn in. Read 35.2-35.4.
- Tues 5/7: Water transport in plants. Transpiration. Adaptations of Xerophytes. Start short transpiration lab. Read 36.1-36.4.
- Thurs 5/9:
Plant reproduction: flowers. Monocots vs. Dicots. Read 38.1-38.2(move to next week). Transport in phloem. Compare xylem and phloem. Finish transpiration lab from Tuesday. On-line transpiration simulation. There is a hand-out on this website and a link to the site on this website. For people who were here, the assignment is due Tuesday, 5/14 and for students with excused absences or taking IB tests, the assignment is due Monday 5/20.
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