#9501
THE WORLD OF
PLANTS
VISUAL LEARNING COMPANY
2000
Grade Levels: 5-9
20 minutes
2 Instructional Graphics Enclosed
DESCRIPTION
Why are plants important to life? What makes a plant a plant? Investigates their general
characteristics as well as major groups, habitats, and predecessors. Includes video questions, a
review, and a quiz.
ACADEMIC STANDARDS
Subject Area: Science: Life Sciences
• Standard: Understands the structure and function of cells and organisms
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Benchmark: Knows that all organisms are composed of cells, which are the
fundamental units of life; most organisms are single cells, but other organisms
(including humans) are multicellular
• Standard: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment
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Benchmark: Knows how energy is transferred through food webs in ecosystems as
sunlight, and green plants transfer this energy into chemical energy through
photosynthesis; this chemical energy is passed from organism to organism; animals get
energy from oxidizing their food, releasing some of this energy as heat)
• Standard: Understands biological evolution and the diversity of life
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Benchmark: Knows basic ideas related to biological evolution (e.g., diversity of species
is developed through gradual processes over many generations; biological adaptations,
such as changes in structure, behavior, or physiology, allow some species to enhance
their reproductive success and survival in a particular environment)
INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS
1. To describe the characteristics that distinguish plants from
animals.
2. To explain the process of photosynthesis.
3. To examine plants’ features that allow them to live on land,
including multicellular, cell wall, and chlorophyll.
4. To explain that early plants are believed to have evolved from
aquatic algae.
5. To present that the earliest land plants are believed to be mosses and explain the
characteristics that enabled them to live on land.
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define and provide examples of vascular and nonvascular plants.
identify, characterize, and provide examples of bryophytes.
identify, characterize, and provide examples of spore-producing plants.
identify, characterize, and provide examples of gymnosperms and angiosperms.
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algae
angiosperm
bryophytes
chlorophyll
cones
conifer
flowering
gymnosperms
photosynthesis
seeds
spore
tracheophyte
tube-like
vascular
wall
DURING SHOWING
Applications and Activities
1. Complete the questions as they are presented during the course of the video. (See
INSTRUCTIONAL GRAPHICS.)
2. Answer the ten video quiz questions at the end of the video. (See INSTRUCTIONAL
GRAPHICS.)
AFTER SHOWING
Discussion Items and Questions
1. What group of living things is so important that nearly all
other life depends on it?
2. What is photosynthesis?
3. What is multicellular?
4. What surrounds each plant cell?
5. What is chlorophyll?
6. When did the first plants develop, and what are believed
to be their ancestors?
7. What are algae?
8. What are three major groups of algae?
9. Where do green algae exist?
10. For what is brown algae used?
11. For what is red algae sometimes used?
12. List abilities that trees have.
13. Define nonvascular and give an example.
14. Define vascular and give an example.
15. Give examples of bryophytes.
16. Where do bryophytes most commonly thrive?
17. Why don’t mosses achieve significant height?
18. What is a rhizoid?
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What must be present for fertilization to occur?
Give examples of products derived from vascular plants.
For what are xylem and phloem designed?
Why don’t tracheophyte plants need to live in moisture-rich environments like bryophytes?
How many known species of tracheophytes are there in the world?
What two groups are vascular plants placed?
What’s another term for seedless plants?
Give examples of spore-producing plants.
What are the two groups of seed plants?
Define gymnosperm.
Define angiosperm.
Why are there far fewer species of gymnosperm as opposed to 250 million years ago?
What’s a naked seed?
What are the two groups of angiosperm? Describe each.
How do angiosperms reproduce sexually?
RELATED RESOURCES
Captioned Media Program
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: Plants #3578
How Plants Grow #3139
Photosynthesis and Plant Responses #9350
Plant Reproduction #9354
World Wide Web
The following Web sites complement the contents of this guide; they were selected by professionals who
have experience in teaching deaf and hard of hearing students. Every effort was made to select
accurate, educationally relevant, and “kid safe” sites. However, teachers should preview them before
use. The U.S. Department of Education, the National Association of the Deaf, and the Captioned Media
Program do not endorse the sites and are not responsible for their content.
• THE GREAT PLANT ESCAPE
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html
Help Detective Le Plant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant
life! Contains a link to a teacher’s guide.
• FT EXPLORING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
http://www.ftexploring.com/photosyn/photosynth.html
Explains photosynthesis, energy, and life, such as “Do All Plants Use CO₂?” “Photosynthesis is
for the Birds—and Everything Else,” what is glucose, and much more.
• THE PLANT HUNTERS
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/plants/story4/hunters.htm
Plant collecting has changed in many ways since USDA plant explorer Frank Meyer walked a
thousand miles from a railhead in China, collecting samples of any plant that looked interesting.
Find out where fruits, etc., originated from.
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• PHOTOSYNTHESIS
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_photosynthesis.html
A Biology4Kids site, provides much information on photosynthesis, including the sun and light,
chloroplast, molecules, light and dark reactions, and links to vocabulary words.
• TRICKS OF THE TRADE…HOW DESERT PLANTS SURVIVE
http://www.idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season3/desert/plants.html
Find out how desert plants save water in order to survive. Also answers other questions such
as “Why do plants shrink and swell?” “Why do plants produce special chemicals?” and “Why do
seeds of plants sleep?”
• GYMNOSPERMS; ANGIOSPERMS AND FLOWERING PLANTS
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_gymnosperm.html
A Biology4Kids site, gives a brief description of “What Are Seeds?” At the bottom of the page,
click on the button “Next Stop on Tour” and be led to an explanation of angiosperms and its
flowering plants. Also, for these two topics, click on one of the several vocabulary words on the
left side of the page.
• PLANT PRINTOUTS
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/printouts.shtml
From the Enchanted Learning site, provides a brief description of the flower as a reproductive
unit of angiosperms. Click on one of the highlighted words to read more about that particular
topic. Also has other topics, such as “Johnny Appleseed,” “Bulb,” and several printouts on
flower and plant anatomy, and others.
INSTRUCTIONAL GRAPHICS
• “YOU DECIDE” VIDEO REVIEW
• VIDEO QUIZ
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#9501 THE WORLD OF PLANTS
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Video Review
Directions: During the course of the program, answer the “You Decide”
questions as they are presented in the video.
You Decide
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The earliest land plants were similar to trees.
True or False
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Where do bryophytes most commonly thrive?
Answer:_______________________________
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Xylem and phloem are tubes used to conduct
fluid in plants.
True or False
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Ferns are seed-producing plants.
True or False
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What structure do conifers possess instead
of leaves?
Answer:________________________________
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#9501 THE WORLD OF PLANTS
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Video Quiz
Directions: Answer the questions at the end of the video.
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The first plants are believed to have evolved from
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_________________________ plants do not have
tubes or conducting tissues.
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Mosses, hornworts, and liverworts are
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Mosses tend to thrive where _______________________
is abundant.
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Tracheophytes are _______________________________
plants.
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Ferns reproduce via ______________________________.
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Most plants that we eat reproduce via _______________
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Gymnosperms are plants with a ____________________
seed.
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The seeds of many gymnosperms develop within
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Angiosperms are also referred to as the
___________________________________ plants.
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