Monday - Wednesday - Ecology and Ecosystems
Thursday - Food Web essay
Friday - Ecosystem Succession

All class assignments will be on Google Classroom 
https://classroom.google.com
Class code: skms4mk
Top right bar will have a + sign, click, select "join class" and submit class code

Please keep an organized notebook while we are distance learning! Date the top of each page, and start a new page for each day.  Title each page of notes for each day based on topic and or section in book.  This will make it much easier for you to receive credit for all your hard work so I can grade it efficiently! Go do your best and see what great students you are - you are in control of your own learning for a bit - take the wheel!

Monday - watch the video - Vascular vs Nonvascular plants
Read and take notes in notebook from slides "Plant Classification" in document section below
*homework - vocabulary page 91, write in notebook; read pages 91 and 92*

Tuesday - Answer the following in your notebook:
What are the three major characteristics of nonvascular plants?
Why are nonvascular plants short and low to the ground?
What structure acts like roots to hold a moss in place?
What is contained in the capsule?
Using Figure 1 on page 91: What is the function of the following - rhizoids, stalk, leaflike structures and spores
*homework - in notebook - How do liverworts grow? How did the hornwort get its name? Where do hornworts grow? Complete "nonvascular plants" blue box on page 92

Wednesday - Read pages 93-95 "Xylem zips things up and phloem flows them down"
Answer the following in your notebook:
What are the seedless vascular plants?
What enables these plants to grow taller than mosses?
What is vascular tissue?
What are the two functions of vascular tissue?
Why can vascular plants survive in a greater variety of environments than nonvascular plants?
What is function of xylem?
What is the function of phloem?

Thursday - if possible perform Celery Activity below in the documents section
Remember: Vascular plants have true roots, stems and leaves
(page 94) In your notebook answer the following:
How does a fern's stem differ from most stems you are familiar with?
How do the roots and leaves of a fern grow?
Which part of the fern is its leaf?
What is the waxy coating on the upper surface of a frond called? What is its function?
How are club mosses different from true mosses?
where do club mosses grow?
What is unusual about the stems of horsetails?
*homework - pick a plant studied this week in your book and design a plant tag for a nursery (the tags that label plants you buy).  In your notebook sketch the tag, front and back.  Include - name of plant (scientific and common), light requirements, soil, habitat, water needs, size of plant at maturity and what use in your "garden" would the plant best be suited for. In the Documents section below is an example nursery tag

Friday - take mosses and ferns test - below in documents section
*homework - if possible take a hike and find and sketch in your notebook as many nonvascular and vascular plants you have learned about this week.  Remember to label your sketches with plant name and location found!*
Friday flipgrid topic!  Click below, then click on Green + button to comment to questions for today.  Parents: Flipgrid is moderated by me, and content is hidden until approved.
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