1. What are the characteristics of plants?
Lesson 24
What are the characteristics of plants?
Kids are to write:
Lesson 24
What are the characteristics of plants.
They should do this without being told

2. Plants are pretty to look at. We decorate our homes with them.
We work hard to grow gardens
No notes, just ask why we like to have plants around.

3. Sometimes, we give flowers to our loved ones.
And have thick lawns.
Sometimes, we give flowers to our loved ones.
Same as previous screen

4. Plants give us pleasure, but most important:
Without plants, there could be no life on earth!!
Plants give us oxygen.
Kids write underlined sentence, and rest of page.
The last sentence always throws them. Don’t explain….yet.
They give us our food.
All the food we eat comes from plants, either directly or indirectly.

5. Figure these out:
Why wouldn’t we still have cows, pigs and chickens to eat if there were no plants?
The idea is to get them to realize that the animals eat plants, if there are no plants, the animals die and we have no food.

6. You probably recognize a plant when you see one
You probably recognize a plant when you see one. However, as you have already learned, some algae look like plants. How can you tell if an organism is a plant or not?
No notes

7. All plants have these characteristics:
- Plants have many cells.
- The cells of plants form tissues and organs.
- Plant cells are surrounded by a rigid cell wall, made of cellulose. It gives plants their stiffness.
Kids write underlined sentence and everything else. The third can be shortened to:
Plant cells have cell wall, made of cellulose, that is stiff and holds up plants
- Plants make their own food

8. Most food making takes place in the green leaves of plants.
Plants make their own food using the chlorophyll stored in the cell’s chloroplasts.
Most food making takes place in the green leaves of plants.
The leaves are often called “the plant’s food factory.
Kids write all of it

10. The plant kingdom is divided into two large groups, called phyla.
Vascular plants:
Belong to the division tracheophyta.
Have stems, roots and leaves.
Notes:
Vascular Plants:
Division: tracheophyta
Have stems, roots, leaves
Vascular system (tubes) carries water and nutrients around plants
Have a vascular system (connecting tubes) which carry water and dissolved nutrients to all parts of the plants.

11. And other flowering plants
Vascular plants are the most complex plants. Most of the plants you know belong to this group of plants.
ferns
trees
roses
Kids write names of examples
And other flowering plants

12. Belong to the division bryophyta.
Nonvascular Plants:
Belong to the division bryophyta.
They are very simple plants.
Do not have true roots, stems, or leaves.
They have no vascular system.
Notes:
Nonvascular Plants:
Division: bryophyta
Very simple plants
No true roots, stems, leaves
No vascular system

13. This group includes: mosses liverworts hornwarts
Write name of examples

14. Most plants reproduce by seeds.
All seed plants are vascular plants.
Biologists classify seed plants into two groups.
gymnosperms
Uncovered seeds.
Notes:
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Most common are evergreens which produce cones

15. No notes, talk about how we know they are gymnosperms

17. Most flowering plants are easy to recognize, like roses and tulips.
angiosperms
Are flowering plants.
Most flowering plants are easy to recognize, like roses and tulips.
Did you know that grasses, oak trees, and corn are flowering plants?
Notes:
Angiosperms:
All flowering plants
Roses, tulips, grasses, oak trees and many others
Their flowers are very small and hard to see.