Photosynthesis Role Play

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READING FOR KINDERGARTEN PRE-
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Narrator: Good afternoon everyone. On this
beautiful day, we are going to present a little
Role Play made by 5 Amal and a little help
from 5 Cekal. We would love to have all of
your attention to our Role Play especially to
SPM candidates and gain a little information
on Photosynthesis. Before we start, let us tell
you what is the meaning of photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis is the process when organic
compounds are synthesised from water and
carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight and
chlorophyll. On one beautiful morning in a
small leaf on a plant, this is what happens in
Grana.
Grana: Lalalalalala~ Wah. What a hot day
today. It is the perfect day for photosynthesis.
Oh my goodness! I think I’m going to undergo
photolysis of water.
Narrator: Audience, do you know what
photolysis is? Photolysis is a process of
breaking down the water molecules to
Hydrogen ions and hydroxyl ions.
Grana: Let’s see. Yeah, right! My water
molecules will now split into hydroxyl ions
and hydrogen ions. Let us see them separate.
Narrator: Meanwhile in Chlorophyll, let us see
what happens.
Chlorophyll: I’m so hot! This light gives
energy to my electron. Look at them now.
They’re very excited. Oh no! Now I have to
release them.
Narrator: As the hydrogen ions gladly went
out of the Grana and took a walk, they met
electrons. They nicely greet the electrons and
start a conversation.
Hydrogen ions: Hey electrons. How are you
feeling?
Electrons: We feel very fine and thank you for
asking and frankly after meeting you, I feel
very attracted to you.
Hydrogen ions: Oh really? I feel the same way
too. Now I feel we have to combine and make
hydrogen atoms. Will you help me change?
Electrons: Anything for you my dearies.
Both: Combine.
Narrator: Audience, now the hydrogen ions
has received electrons, and become hydrogen
atoms. You must be thinking, what will
happen to the hydroxyl ions, right? Well, let
us see what happens.
Hydroxyl ions: Hurmm... I feel that I want to
change into hydroxyl group but I have to
release my electrons first. My dear electrons,
will you go out and visit my cousin chlorophyll
and let me changk, e?
Electrons: YESSIR!
Narrator: After each of the hydroxyl ions have
changed into hydroxyl group, they meet each
other.
Hydroxyl group 1: Hey everybody, do you
know? If we recombine our atoms become a
new molecule? If we rearrange our atoms,
we can become water and oxygen molecule.
So, my dear friends, would you like to
recombine?
Other hydroxyl group: Yes, we do!
Hydroxyl group 1: Let us combine to form
water and oxygen.
Other hydroxyl group: Okay. Great! Let’s
combine.
Narrator: During this process, light reaction
will give out product of oxygen and water.
Oxygen is then released into the atmosphere.
Bye-bye oxygen!! Audience, there you go.
That is what happens during light reaction.
The most important thing is that you must
know what happen to the hydroxyl ion and
hydrogen ions after photolysis? Can you
remember? If you don’t think so, refer to
Form 4 Chapter 6: Nutrition Biology textbook
after this, okay. All right, we have done with
the light reaction. There is one more
reaction, called dark reaction. In dark
reaction, no light energy is required. But, one
thing you must always remember, dark
reaction occurs not only at night. Dark
reaction occurs day and night. Now, let us see
what happen in dark reaction......
(Pause for three seconds)
Narrator: Audience, in light reaction, there
are hydrogen atoms, produced after
photolysis of water, right? For your
information, the hydrogen atoms are used in
dark reaction to reduce carbon dioxide.
(Wait for 5 seconds)
Narrator: Hydrogen atoms went out for a
walk for fresh air until they met carbon
dioxide.
Hydrogen: Excuse me. May I ask why are you
crying?
Carbon dioxide: *sob, sob* I broke my arm.
Hydrogen: Oh dear! Stop crying. I can help
you fix it.
Carbon dioxide: Oh really?
Hydrogen: Of course and see who is coming?
It is the photosynthetic enzyme. She can help
to catalyse this.
Narrator: Photosynthetic enzymes help
hydrogen atoms to fix carbon dioxide and the
overall reaction results in the reduction of
carbon dioxide into glucose. See, CH2O is the
formula for the glucose monomer.
Remember, the meaning of photosynthesis is
the production of glucose and oxygen, by
carbon dioxide and water, in the presence of
light energy and chlorophyll, right? You can
learn that light reaction can help in dark
reaction. Thus, this concludes our
Photosynthesis Role Play. Thank you for
watching.
Here, everyone takes a bow.