Big Ideas: Life Cycles of Plants

Essential Questions: How do gymnosperms reproduce? How do angiosperms reproduce? What defines a fruit? How does seed germination occur?

Vocabulary: seed, fruit, dispersal, dormancy, germination

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

December

Reproduction and Development of Seed Plants:

Formative:

Formal Indiana State Core Standards Are Not Available

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

* Seed and Fruit Development (Dispersal, Dormancy, Germination)

Measure the consumption of oxygen by a germinating seed by creating and using a respirometer

Student Partipiation and Dialog

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Compare that amount of starch in unripen vs ripen bananas in order to provide reasoning to why banana tissue softens

Study Guide Assignments

However, Some Related State Standards Associated with General Biology Could Apply

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Visit (www.rm118.com) for Further Details and Information with Regards to the Curriculum

and becomes sweeter

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Chapter Quizzes

Visit:https://www.in.gov/doe/students/indiana-academic-standards/science-and-computer-science/

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Summative:

Chapter Exam