Warm Up (5 minutes) Monday- List one medicine that you know a plant is used for medical purposes.   Tuesday-  Describe 3 different types of vascular plants. Wednesday-  Sub Thursday-  Answer 3 questions on the board. Friday-  Make a list of all of the assignments that you need to complete for the week.

Instruction: (15 minutes) Monday-  Using icev scientific nomenclature of plants slides have students take notes in their journals over slides 14-26.   Tuesday-  Discuss slides 27-39.  Students will need to take notes in their journals. Wednesday-  Sub Thursday-  We will review the slides 1-39 and review for a quiz at the end of class.  Make sure there is no confusion on any of these slides.   Friday-  If students have not complete plant uses, and vascular vs non vascular they will have this day to complete their work.

Monday-  We will begin our scientific classification and nomenclature of plants.  We will start by passing out the vocab and creating a vocabulary study sheet.  They will just need to copy the vocabulary words into their journal and study those words when they are finished .

 

Tuesday-   

We will start with a vocabulary quiz.

 

Show slides 1 to 13 of the Scientific Classification & Nomenclature of Plants

 

– Importance of Plants segment. Distribute the Plant Uses and A World Without Plants Activities and allow the rest of the class to complete the Activities. Hand out the Effects of Invasive Plants Project and instruct students this will be due during Class 9.

 

Wednesday-  Show slides 14 to 26 of the Scientific Classification & Nomenclature of Plants – Importance of Plants segment. Then distribute the Assessment and have students complete it. Allow the remainder of the class for students to work on the Effects of Invasive Plants Project.

 

Thursday-Show slides 27-39 of the scientific classification and nomenclature of plants segment.  Distribute the vascular vs. non-vascular plant activity and allow the remainder of class to work on the activity.  

 

Friday-  Catch up on all of the work from this week.  When students  have finished with that they will work on the effects of invasive plants activity.  

 

Monday- Wednesday

 

Objectives- Students will work on their research projects.

 

Students will be given this class time to prepare for their research project presentations.  They will need to be working quietly and alone in order to keep their in class work time.

 

Thursday and Friday

Objectives-  Students will present their research projects.  

 

Students will present their final research projects.  This will be counted as a test grade and will be used as their unit test.