Getting To Know Plants

Roots, Leaves, Stems, Flowers

 Relevance
Why should we study about plants?
 Photosynthesis

How to plants grow -

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.plantsgrow/

Proving that plants produce oxygen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhqyAMOIHvI

Bubbles rising from plants in an aquarium - http://youtu.be/ffkmwgDfb74

Plant Food
 Medicines

Willow tree – Bark used to make aspirin

 Medicines

Opium Poppy produces Morphine -

Used in Pain Killers
 Careers

How many species of plants are there?

 Careers

How many species of plants are there?

375,000
 Botanist

Jene demonstrated that

green plants consume
C02 and release O2
Jene Senebier,
Botanist
1742- 1809
 Botanist
“ Ever since I could
remember all I ever wanted
to be was a botanist.
As a child I pretty much
lived in the various woods
near our home in Dr. David Spooner,
southwestern Ohio, and
Botanist
knew every trail and creek
bed by heart” University of Wisconsin
What are Herbs?
 What are Herbs?
Plants with green tender stems; usually short

Tomato
 What are Herbs?
Plants with green tender stems; usually short

Tulsi
What are Shrubs?
 What are Shrubs?
These plants have stems branching out near
the base. The stem is hard but not very thick.

Rose Plant
What are Trees?

Apple Tree
 What are Trees?
They are tall. They also have hard and thick
brown stem

Apple Tree
 What are Trees?
They are tall. They also have hard and thick
brown stem

Mango Tree
What are Weeds?
 What are Weeds?
Unwanted short plants that are generally
removed by farmers
What are Creepers?
 What are Creepers?
Plants with weak stems that cannot stand
upright and spread on the ground
What are Climbers?
 What are Climbers?
Plants that take support from neighbouring
structures to stand up
 What are Climbers?

Climber Video – Morning Glory Plant –

Video 3
http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/lsps07_int_plantmovies/
Getting To Know Plants

Stems
Experiment
 Class Discussion
How does the water get up the stem?

Water moving up
from soil to roots
to stems to leaves
Tubes in a Celery
Redwood Tree
Redwood Tree vs
Qutub Minar

300 ft 237 ft
 Class Discussion

How does the water get up so high in the tree?

Water in a Test Tube
Water in a Test Tube
Water in a Capillary Tube
Tubes in Redwood Tree
Redwood Tree has
millions of these
small tubes
Tubes in Redwood Tree
Redwood Tree has
millions of these
small tubes

The tubes are made

of Cellulose. What
does “Ose” mean?
Transpiration
 Class Discussion

How does the water get up so high in the tree?

Class Discussion

Why does the size of

the leaves of the
redwood tree
decrease as you go
higher?
 Functions of a Stem

1. To provide plants with

support
2. To water and minerals
from the soil to the
leaves
 Age of a Tree

Can you tell the

age of a tree just
by looking at it?
Tree Rings
How was the weather in the past
 Age of a Tree

Simulation – Finding the age of a tree –

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/treerings/report.cfm
Getting To Know Plants

Leaves
 Class Quiz

How do plants
make food?
 Class Quiz

How do plants
make food?

Sunlight
Carbon dioxide + Water Sugar + Oxygen
 Class Quiz

How does Carbon dioxide (CO2) enter the leaf?

 Class Quiz

How does Carbon dioxide (CO2) enter the leaf?

Stomata in Greek in means mouth like opening

 Class Quiz

How does Carbon dioxide (CO2) enter the leaf?

 Class Quiz

How does the plant get the water needed in

photosynthesis?
 Class Quiz

What happens to the sugar produced in

photosynthesis?
 Class Quiz

What happens to the oxygen produced in

photosynthesis?
 Class Quiz

How much sugar does a

sunflower plant make in a
day?
 Class Quiz

So plants take in Carbon dioxide and release

Oxygen.

Do plants need oxygen?

 Oxygen Needed by Plants

Sugar + Oxygen Carbon dioxide + Water + Energy

Plants produce more oxygen than they need

Photosynthesis

Simulation –
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/photosynthesis.html
Getting To Know Plants

Roots
What are the functions of
roots?
 What are the functions of
roots?

1. To anchor the plants

2. To absorb water and
minerals
 Deep Tap Roots

Video of Mesquite Tree – Play at 3:22

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/tdc02_vid_desert/
Getting To Know Plants

Flowers
 Class Quiz

When I say, “Flowers”,

what comes to mind?
Rafflesia
Rafflesia

• Found in Indonesia,
Thailand and
Philippines
Rafflesia

• Found in Indonesia,
Thailand and
Philippines
• 1 meter across
Rafflesia

• Found in Indonesia,
Thailand and
Philippines
• 1 meter across
• Weighs 7 Kgs
Rafflesia

• Found in Indonesia,
Thailand and
Philippines
• 1 meter across
• Weighs 7 Kgs
• Smells like rotten
meat
 Class Quiz

Why do plants have

flowers?
 Class Quiz

What does reproduction mean?

Class Quiz
To understand this…

… let’s look more closely at flowers.

Sepals in Flower Buds
Sepals in Flower Buds

Sepals are used to protect the flowers

Petals
 Class Quiz
Identify the male part of the flower.
 Stamens

Anther

Stamens

Filament
 Anther
Anther produces Pollen

Pollen has all the information on how to be a dad

Each Anther carries up to 100,000 pollen grains
 Class Quiz
Identify the female part of the flower.
 Pistils

Stigma

Pistils Style

Ovary

Ovary not visible clearly, go to the next slide

Structure of a Flower
Pistil
 Class Quiz

What do you sow in the ground to get a

new plant?
 Class Quiz

Where else can you find seeds in a plant?

Structure of a Flower

Video –
http://youtu.be/f44CBkneep4
 Class Quiz

Could it be that flowers carry the seed and turn

into fruits?
Flowers Turning into Fruits

Video – From 5:06 (short clip only for a few

seconds)
http://youtu.be/eqsXc_aefKI

Animation
http://youtu.be/bwCpQflmQG4
 Class Quiz

How does the pollen travel from one flower

to another?
 Pollination

Process by which pollen gets transferred from one

plant to another, thereby enabling reproduction
Pollination
 Pollination

How Pollination Happens – Play full video

with sound
http://youtu.be/Q-_nVSsw9X4
Pollination in Slow Motion

Video – Play from 3:18 with sound

http://youtu.be/eqsXc_aefKI
 Class Quiz

Why are flowers so colorful and have

scents?
Flowers as they appear to us
Flowers as they appear to Bees
 Class Quiz

Why do so many flowers open during the

day and close at night?
 Class Quiz

Bananas do not have any seeds, but they

are fruits.

How do banana trees grow without seeds?

Wild Bananas
 Life Cycle of a Flower

Ovules develops Pollen grain

to Seeds. from Anther
Ovary into Fruit are trapped on
that encloses the Stigma
seed