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- 11th
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Students define silvics, use a key to identify a variety of local trees with their scientific and common names, and describe the habitat requirements of a variety of local trees. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students distinguish the characteristics that separate the flowering plants (angiosperms). Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify what makes a seed, what gymnosperms are and where they can be found, and the importance of gymnosperms. They identify conifers and explain how they reproduce. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students describe flowering plants, explore why angiosperms are the most successful plants, identify angiosperms and explain how they reproduce. They describe the three life patterns of angiosperms. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students visit the New York Botanical Garden and draw angiosperms and gymnosperms from different terrestrial biomes. They label their drawing with the common and scientific names. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students identify trees by their leaf type. They manipulate the GPS system to load waypoints of particular trees in their community. They transfer their information of ten types of trees to ARCview for presentation purposes. They create a PowerPoint presentation to reflect their knowledge of tree types, uses of trees and digital pictures they took. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students collect and analyze pollen from different species of plants. In small groups, they classify pollen according to shape, size and physical characteristics. They draw the basic anatomy of flowering plants and create a dichotomous key for identifying the pollen grains. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine two or three unfamiliar flowers or fruits, such as eggplant and mango and realize that each flower or fruit comes from a flowering seed plant. They then identify the plants. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the differences in nonvascular and vascular plants. They compare the differences between gymnosperm and angiosperms. Students compare the differences between moocots and dicots. They view a powerpoint presentation on the Monocots vs. Dicots. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create phylogenetic trees to diagram the evolutionary connection between four plant groups. Using ferns, moss, angiosperm, and gymnosperm, they identify the reproductive structures and place them on the tree. Their posters include examples of each plant group. Full Review »

