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THE PLANT KINGDOM

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|| Index: 1. Plants. 2. Characteristics of plants 3. What do different parts of plants do? 4. Plant nutrition 5. Let´s investigate: Plant interaction 6. Flowering plant reproduction 7. Let´s investigate: asexual reproduction 8. Amazing science: Seeds (Reading) 9. Science Investigators´ report: A plant report 10. Vocabulary ||



1. Plants.
Examples of plants

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Flowering plants: || ||
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 * Angiosperm ||  Gymnosperm  ||

ANGIOSPERMS: Images and videos GYMNOSPERMS: images and videos Non flowering plants
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 * Algae ||  Mosses  ||  Ferns  ||

TREES

2. Characteristics of plants CELL GAME  CELL STRUCTURE: Learn and play (You will enjoy it, sure!)   LOOK : MacMillan Poster Activity media type="custom" key="23700976" PARTS OF A LEAF:



3. What do different parts of plants do?

 * LOOK ** : MacMillan slide presentation: PLANTS

DRAW and LABEL:

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THE PLANT DETECTIVE: The plant detective



4. Plant nutrition
Breathe in, breathe out

What is Photosynthesis?


Photosynthesis may sound like a big word, but it's actually pretty simple. You can divide it into two parts: "Photo" is the Greek word for "Light," and "synthesis," is the Greek word for "putting together," which explains what photosynthesis is. It is using light to put things together. You may have noticed that all animals and humans eat food, but plants don't eat anything. Photosynthesis is how plants eat. They use this process to make their own food. Since they don't have to move around to find food, plants stay in one place, since they can make their food anywhere as long as they have three things.

The three things are Carbon Dioxide, Water, and Light. Here's what photosynthesis looks like: Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light > Sugar + Oxygen Plants want to breathe in Carbon Dioxide. Plants also drink. This is why you need to water plants or they will die. They use their roots to suck water up into their bodies, and their little mouths to breath in the carbon dioxide. Once they have both of these things, all they need is light. Leaves are made up of a bunch of tiny cells, where this happens. Inside the cells are tiny little things called chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are what makes leaves green, and they are also what takes the carbon dioxide, the water, and the light, and turns them into sugar and oxygen.

The sugar is then used by the plants for food, and the oxygen is breathed out into the atmosphere. This process as a whole is "photosynthesis."

Plants and photosynthesis: Help Sam in the greenhouse

LOOK : MacMillan animation about Photosynthesis

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From outside to inside



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** Un árbol y el intercambio de energía con su entorno. Proceso de la fotosíntesis ** ANSWER THE SCIENCE INVESTIGATORS´ WIKI 5. Let´s investigate: Plant interaction 

6. Flowering plant reproduction
LOOK AT ZIP POLLINATION (animation below)

Reproduction in flowering plants (PPT) Go to ZIP Challenge and click on Pollination

LIFE CYCLES (REVISION)

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7. Let´s investigate: asexual reproduction

 * PLANT REPRODUCTION: **





8. Amazing science: Seeds (Reading)
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9 . Science Investigators´ report: A plant report

COLLECTING AUTUMN LEAVES: See a model

DO IT YOURSELF. Here is a template to ADOPT A TREE

The plant kingdom is the biggest group of living things on Earth. Plants make their own food. Plants part are green because their cells contain chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is needed for plant nutrition. Plants can react to light, temperature and water. Most plants reproduce by growing flowers which then produce seeds.
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10. Vocabulary
**Classification of plants**: living things*, Plant Kingdom*, flowering / non-flowering, angiosperms, gymnosperms, algae, mosses, ferns, evergreen, date palm, habitat **Plants cells:** cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, chloroplasts, vacuole, chlorophyll **Plants parts, characteristics and functions** (Las partes de las plantas, características y funciones): roots*, leaves*, stems*, seeds*, fruit*, flower*, fronds, cones, petiole, blade, pores, stomata, vein, herbaceous stem, woody stem, root hairs, nutrition*, carbon dioxide*, oxygen*, respiration*, water*, minerals, Sun*, interact*, grow*, reproduce*, exchange gases, energy*, soil*, glucose*, phloem cells, phloem sap, xylem cells, xylem sap, petals, attract, pollen grains, react*, light*, environment*, Venus Fly trap, carnivorous, supplements, Saguaro cactus, adapted, expand, store, spiny, absorbing*, sunlight, producers **Plant reproduction,/seed germination** (La reproducción en las plantas/germinación de las semillas): sexual reproduction*, male / female organs, stamen*, filament, anther*, pollen*, reproductive cell, pistil, ovary*, ovules*, style, stigma, pollination*, seed*, fertilisation, asexual reproduction, seeds*, spores, spore case, stolons, tubers, underground, potatoes, fragmentation, carrot, fertiliser, shoot, seed bank **Other words**: shady, delicate, fragrant, medicine, resilient, biologist*, government, vault, store*, guard