Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Grade 7 Week 5: Plants

After we come back inside after the successful Mushroom Hunting we now take on the Kingdom of Plants (so we can head back outside and complete this years Herbarium).
This weeks questions:

What types of plants are there?
How has each type adapted for survival?
How are plants adapted to life on land?

The contract for this week takes you outside as well. One has you starting your own herbarium by collecting samples, drawings, or photos of plants around your home. The other choice has you looking for spore producing plants around your yard to create a terrarium. Have fun!

31 comments:

Kayla K. said...

Can you just draw a terrarium/make a poster of a terrarium?

John said...

Nope. Go outside and explore!

Prem Patel said...

there were flowers,leafs, and other multicellular plants, they absorb nutrients, and as long as they get food, they can grow.

David said...

vascualar and nonvascular and nonvascular adapted by living in water and vascular adapted by having roots to get water from the ground

Sarah said...

There are vascular plants, non-vascular plants,gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Vascular plants have a vascular systems to move water more quickly and non-vascular plants transport water cell by cell, this causes them not to get as large as vascular plants. Gymnosperms reproduce with seeds and angiosperms reproduce with spores. They adapted by reproducing with seeds that have protective outer shells that hold in all the nutrients they need so they don't need water. Their roots take in water from the ground and move it either cell by cell or through their vascular systems around the plants.

sophie.bolich said...

I am posting on the blog for a grade.

alex gravatt said...

can i have a list of al the b contracts soo i can catch up please?

~mschwiby~ said...

This week we are pressing leaves for a book

Unknown said...

i found alot of plants outside that i didnt know wat they were

Zack said...

when are we identifying the plants we found

Ben Pierce said...

I have a book with all the types of trees in wisconsin and i cant find one of the trees leaves that I found at the park could you lend me a book for help

Unknown said...

tree books helped me find trees

Aidan said...

I still need to press my plants

Moriah Butters said...

I liked going outside to find plants

Megan K. said...

Is s mudtard seed the smallest ever found or is it just small?

Kelly said...

Is the plant book considered our contract for this week?

Moriah Butters said...

Plants r green from cloriphill

Lauryn Cudworth said...

There are vascular plants and non vascular plants.

Megan K. said...

Is a mustard seed the smallest seed in the United States?

The_Mistletoe289 said...

There are vascular & non-vascular plants. The vascular ones grow bigger than non vascular plants because they have a vascular system to transport nutrients.

Carissa said...

for contract 6 what kind of seeds can we use like plants, flowers, trees or what

David said...

why are some trees smoother than others?

David said...

u can use any kind of seeds im using pumpkin seeds

Carissa said...

There are vascular and non-vascular plants

Kaylie Schelinske said...

What is the most comman type of tree?

alycia said...

wait how do u make a wiki? is it hard?

Anonymous said...

Do we have to post on this blog for a grade like for each chapter or what. people are telling me different stuff that we do or we don't

Anonymous said...

Wait, do we have to complete a terrarium for this week and share it on Friday?

Morgan K. said...

What types of plants are there?

There are four different types of plants. They are vascular, nonvascular, gymnosperms,and angiosperms.

How has each type adapted for survival?

Well, Vascular plants have tube-like structures that transport water from the roots to the stem to the leaves.

Nonvascular plants move water to plant to plant bytransporting it from one cell to another cell.

Gymnosperms may reproduce with seeds. One example of a seed is a Sunflower seed. They spread by the wind and grow into other Sunflowers.

Angiosperms may reproduce with spores. For example, a flowering plant is an angiosperm.

The roots of the plants soak up water and tranport them to other plants. The seeds help them adapt and reproduce.

sierra s said...

There are plants that have vascular systems and those that don't...

Noah R. said...

Plants are adapted to survival because they can mostly grow in places that are sunny that can help them grow.