2/12 – bring in at least 4 beans or seeds for planting and a clear plastic cups. Students will work in pairs ( 2 students per group)
Weekly Vocabulary words:
1. vascular - vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
2. sexual reproduction of plants -process by which plants generate new individuals, or offspring.
3. fertilization -reproduction by pollination.
4. spores - a small organism or a single cell being that is able to grow into a new organism with the right conditions.
5. fronds - A big compound leaf; a term applied to the leavesof palms and ferns
6. rhizoids - A slender rootlike filament that grows from an alga, a fungus, or the gametophyte of a moss, liverwort, or fern, used for attachment and nourishment.
7. asexual reproduction of plants - the formation of new individuals from the cell(s) of a single parent. It is very common in plants.
8. mosses - small flowerless plants that usually grow in dense green clumps or mats, in damp or shady locations.
9. rhizome -creeping rootstalk, horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant.
10. Tropism - the turning, bending, movement, or growth of an organism or part of an organism elicited by an externalstimulus, either toward (positive t.) or away from (negative t.) the stimulus
