I am away on Dec 14. I plan to be back next day. Open the classroom windows. Remember to wear your mask in class and wash hands frequently.
Dec 14 schedule:
TEAMS ASSIGNMENT :MAKE STUDY NOTES:
Make your own one page notes on Kingdom plantae evolution notes slides. Upload your notes on TEAMS with your name on it (5 marks)
TEAMS ASSIGNMENT : PLANT EVOLUTION LAB PART 1 MOSSES AND FERNS: 25 MARKS
Photocopies of this are located in the class. They might be at the back of the room near windows. You will also need drawing paper. Ask the teacher to get some from the photocopy room. Please bring your own pencil crayons.
Each drawing ought to be half a page.
First go into the school garden and bring back some mosses and fern specimens. Do not use the moss growing in the tub in class. There are delicate tiny carnivorous sundew specimens growing there which are too young to be disturbed.
Plants alternate their generations. If humans did this, it would be something like this: I will explain this when I come back to school.
1. Examine MOSSES and FERNS by using the DISSECTING MICROSCOPES located in the back room. These have TWO OCULAR LENSES: two eye pieces, not one.
2. Draw your specimens while observing under low power. Put your specimens on paper towel. if a petri dish is available, try submerging your moss under water. It looks very mich like seaweed. Why does it resemble algae?
3. Upload pictures of page 9 and 10 of the Plant evolution lab activity with your name on it.
When you clean up, wipe the microscopes with hand sanitizer, put the cover on and carefully put the microscopes back into the room between mine and Ms. Mergens.
EVALUTATION CRITERIA:
22-25 marks : you make slow careful drawings that are IN COLOUR. the drawing of each specimen takes half a page. You label any structures you find! And take note of any animals you find (any bugs?) Your drawings show excellence and care. It is brilliant in how artistic it is. You upload pages 9 and 10 of your plant evolution activity and the answers are in complete sentences.
18-21 marks: you make drawings that are beautiful! These are really amazing artistic drawings. You did not label the structures in the drawings. You upload pages 9 and 10 of your plant evolution activity and the answers are in complete sentences.
12-16 marks: These are beautiful drawings and it is a good start. You need a bit more time to make this complete. You did not upload pages 9 and 10.
0-11 marks: While this is a wonderful start with very beautiful drawings, it is incomplete.
.
As you work through this lab, note that we do not have certain specimens. We have no liverworts or horsetails in our school garden so you cannot examine them. Just answer the questions for liverworts and horsetails.
Plants alternate their generations. If humans did this, it would be something like this: I will explain this when I come back to school.
