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Grounding in Botany Lesson Plans for Classroom Use

 

Lesson plans for grades 9-12 by topic:
::: Cells :::
Do Plants Get Cancer?  The Effects of Infecting Sunflower Seedlings with Agrobaterium tumefaciens
The Effects of Gibberellic Acid
How Sweet It Is: Enzyme Action in Germinating Seeds
Fruit Salad -- Hold the DNA, Please
Growing Like a Weed: Plant Cell Elongation
Impressions of a Stoma
Monocots and Dicots: A Crash Course in Cutting and Comparing Corn and Coleus
Rooting for Mitosis
The Plant Cell: Peeping into Potatoes, Peppers, and Pears
The "You" in Diffusion
Tiny Cells and Agar Gels (A Supplement to "Why Cells Aren't Big")
Using Math to Talk About Cells: Surface-to-Volume Ratios in Biology
Using Math to Talk About Cells Answers: Surface-to-Volume Ratios in Biology
::: Ecology :::
Zoo and Botanical Gardens Biome Contract
H2-Flow
Quiet Invaders: Looking at Invasive Species in Our Midst
The Rain upon the Radishes
::: Evolution :::
Bean There, Done That: A Hardy-Weinberg Simulation
Natural Selection: For the Birds

Reading Plants

::: Genetics :::
Design a Screen
Quickie Genetics (A Supplement to Genetic Crossing Labs)

The Daily Variety

3, 2, 1 -- Countdown to Genetics

(Courtesy of Carolina Biological)

::: Photosynthesis :::
Fast Plant Chromatography
Supplement to "Exploring Photosynthesis with Fast Plants"
The Red and Yellow: Carbon Fixation
::: Plant Reproduction :::
Making Plant Clones
The Joy of (Plant) Sex
::: Scientific Logic :::
Cause, Effect, or Coincidence?

 

 

 

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