PHOTOSYNTHESIS
These Lessons are designed to be completed in a sequence of order. To avoid confusion, please do not skip around.
PRE-ASSESSMENT
Complete this before you begin the unit. When the unit is over, you will retake it to show how much your learning has changed.
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LESSON 1: BOTANY INTRODUCTION
Use the "Annotation Guidelines" to investigate this article. Follow the annotation process for full credit. Complete the sorting activity on the back of the article.
Use the "Annotation Guidelines" to investigate this article. Follow the annotation process for full credit. Complete the sorting activity on the back of the article.
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LESSON 2: "HOW PHOTOSYNTHESIS WORKS" (Complete the lessons in Actively Learn)
Log into Actively Learn from "KSD Frequently used links" and Use "Clever" to login with your KSD login/password. Complete the lesson provided (make sure you are in S2, Semester 2, science content). This article will not let you continue until you answer each question. If you want to change your answer on any question, email your teacher to ask her to reset it for you. Don't forget to write notes in your notebook from the article because you can use your notebook on assessments. If you have difficulty accessing Actively Learn you may instead read the following document, type in your answer for each question, and submit the document through email to your teacher. After you complete this lesson, create a 1st model iteration by drawing a new model of how photosynthesis works, based on your new understanding of this process.
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LESSON 3: BILL NYE PLANTS
Use the Bill Nye "Plants" Video on Schooltube (https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill_Nye_Plants/1_bazz1h0n) to complete a "Venn Diagram" to compare and contrast plants vs animals, focusing on their input and outputs. Once you complete this lesson, create a 2nd model iteration by drawing a new model of how photosynthesis works, based on your new understanding of this process.
Use the Bill Nye "Plants" Video on Schooltube (https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill_Nye_Plants/1_bazz1h0n) to complete a "Venn Diagram" to compare and contrast plants vs animals, focusing on their input and outputs. Once you complete this lesson, create a 2nd model iteration by drawing a new model of how photosynthesis works, based on your new understanding of this process.
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LESSON 4: CHEMISTRY BASICS
In this PowerPoint lesson, you will learn about chemical reactions to better understand the properties of matter, and how different types of matter react with each other. One of most important chemical reactions for life on earth is...photosynthesis! Take notes as you go through the PowerPoint presentation. Once you have completed this lesson, create a 3rd model iteration of how photosynthesis works. Include all sources of CO2 (carbon dioxide) that you can think of that might enter the plant system.
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LESSON 5: THE CHEMISTRY OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Watch the video entitled, "Introduction to Photosynthesis and Global Warming" by Cheryl Van Buskirk, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kvqWzG9pEM. Follow the instructions in the PowerPoint lesson to take notes, answer questions, and complete your 4th model iteration to show what is happening inside a plant's leaves. Your model should include the unseen chemicals of the process that occur in the leaves themselves.
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MID-ASSESSMENT: (Retake the pre-assessment you completed at the beginning of the unit)
Complete this assessment to see how you are doing with your understanding of photosynthesis. If this is easy for you at this point, you are doing well. If this is hard to do right now, then you need some practice.
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RESOURCES FOR MORE PRACTICE: (Use the links below to study more about photosynthesis)
LESSON 6: "AP Explains: Role of the Amazon in Global Climate Change" (Complete the lesson in Actively Learn)
LT: Use computational thinking to obtain information for the human impact on the rate of photosynthesis.
SC: Create an explanation for how humans are impacting the amount of CO2 in the system.
CCC (Crosscutting Concept): Cause and Effect
Log into Actively Learn from "KSD Frequently used links" and Use "Clever" to login with your KSD login/password. Complete the lesson provided (make sure you are in S2, Semester 2, science content). The article will not let you continue until you answer each question. If you want to change your answer on any question, email your teacher to ask her to reset it for you. Don't forget to write notes in your notebook from the article because you can use your notebook on your assessments. If you have difficulty accessing Actively Learn, you may instead read the following document, type in your answer for each question, and submit the document through email to your teacher.
SC: Create an explanation for how humans are impacting the amount of CO2 in the system.
CCC (Crosscutting Concept): Cause and Effect
Log into Actively Learn from "KSD Frequently used links" and Use "Clever" to login with your KSD login/password. Complete the lesson provided (make sure you are in S2, Semester 2, science content). The article will not let you continue until you answer each question. If you want to change your answer on any question, email your teacher to ask her to reset it for you. Don't forget to write notes in your notebook from the article because you can use your notebook on your assessments. If you have difficulty accessing Actively Learn, you may instead read the following document, type in your answer for each question, and submit the document through email to your teacher.
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LESSON 7: VIRTUAL ELODEA LAB
Experimental Question: How will the rate of photosynthesis change if the amount of direct light on Elodea is increased?
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the PowerPoint for instructions on how to proceed with this lab. Identify the 3 variables for this lab and write a hypothesis. Click on the Elodea Lab Link to access the experiment (you will need Flash to access this website). How will you record the data? Follow the Elodea Lab Data Table Link to download the data table. When you have completed the data table, make a graph for your data (which variable is placed on the 'x' axis, and which is placed on the 'y' axis?), using the PowerPoint as a guide. Then use the data to write a CER (claim-evidence-reasoning) that answers the experimental question above.
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the PowerPoint for instructions on how to proceed with this lab. Identify the 3 variables for this lab and write a hypothesis. Click on the Elodea Lab Link to access the experiment (you will need Flash to access this website). How will you record the data? Follow the Elodea Lab Data Table Link to download the data table. When you have completed the data table, make a graph for your data (which variable is placed on the 'x' axis, and which is placed on the 'y' axis?), using the PowerPoint as a guide. Then use the data to write a CER (claim-evidence-reasoning) that answers the experimental question above.
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LESSON 8: "Satellite Detects Human Contribution to Atmospheric CO2" (Complete the lesson in Actively Learn)
LT: Communicate the cause and effect relationship between human activities and the rate of photosynthesis
SC: Identify which variable has the greatest impact on the rate of photosynthesis. Justify with reasoning.
CCC (Crosscutting Concept): Cause and Effect
Log into Actively Learn from "KSD Frequently used links" and Use "Clever" to login with your KSD login/password. Complete the lesson provided (make sure you are in S2, Semester 2, science content). The article will not let you continue until you answer each question. If you want to change your answer on any question, email your teacher to ask her to reset it for you. Don't forget to write notes in your notebook from the article because you can use your notebook on your assessments. If you have difficulty accessing Actively Learn, you may instead read the following document, type in your answer for each question, and submit the document through email to your teacher.
SC: Identify which variable has the greatest impact on the rate of photosynthesis. Justify with reasoning.
CCC (Crosscutting Concept): Cause and Effect
Log into Actively Learn from "KSD Frequently used links" and Use "Clever" to login with your KSD login/password. Complete the lesson provided (make sure you are in S2, Semester 2, science content). The article will not let you continue until you answer each question. If you want to change your answer on any question, email your teacher to ask her to reset it for you. Don't forget to write notes in your notebook from the article because you can use your notebook on your assessments. If you have difficulty accessing Actively Learn, you may instead read the following document, type in your answer for each question, and submit the document through email to your teacher.
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SUMMATIVE: ASSESSMENT
(You will be given 3 questions but only have to answer 1 of them. The questions will offer different scenarios for you to predict/hypothesize the outcome using all of your knowledge of photosynthesis and Earth systems). Email your teacher when you are ready to take the assessment.
