Dissections
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plant dissections
Attached below are my 4 plant dissections! I focused mostly on edible/medicinal plants found in Alaska because that is why I took this class, but I have learned so many useful things this summer and can’t wait to put the knowledge to use in my future adventures.
Bingo- Emily Camp
Attached below is my attempt at the bingo! I ran around for hours looking for 3 of the bingo spaces from the provided bingo sheet and couldn’t find them, so I replaced them with some cool examples I found from our vocabulary. This was shockingly fun and helped me understand …
Plant Dissections! -James
Looking forward to getting deeper and deeper with these foundations in more dissections! Have a good rest of your summer! Geranium viscosissimum– Sticky geranium Sisymbrium loeselii– Tall hedge mustard Monarda fistulosa– Wild bergamot Geum macrophyllum -Large-leaf avens
Plant Dissections
https://www.thinglink.com/user/1736632438475456998 Make dissections of specimens from four different plant families. Document your work with images (select at least 3 vegetative and 3 reproductive characters from each specimen and take photos): Fabaceae (legume family): Big-leaved Lupine Lupinus polyphyllus Habitat: open areas such as fields, slopes, along the road and other disturbed …
Dissection
Rubus ideaus Viburnum edule Chenopodium capitatum Selaginella Thank you for class, and have a good rest of your summer!
Anyone want to join Alaska Science Teachers Association?
We have a website that we struggle to keep updated because our membership has dwindled through pandemic and general teacher overload. http://aksta.org Every one of you who chose to learn more about our “backyards” over the summer models the kind of motivation ASTA would love to support. Check out the …
Plant Bingo
I enjoyed this “game” and really felt like I was on firmer ground vocab-wise by time I got it together to fill the card. Needle was from Sitka spruce. (Spring tradition down here is collecting the tips of new growth to trade at our brewery for beer. Connation was fused …
Plant dissections
I really enjoyed this project. I actually included my two nieces and my eldest son in this activity. They are ages 3, 7, and 5. We had a lot of fun taking flowers apart and sorting the different parts of each that we found. I did the Oxeye daisy dissection …
My 4 plant dissections
I chose to do mine in Google Docs, sorry. Each individual link should be open to public. Thank you! This was a fun class. Best of luck to all. Andrea Vance Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jRRcrjRc_ZVIxy5fyjVFIe25VnfxjmCpgVpXEWuinZU/edit?usp=sharing Tall Jacob’s-ladder (Polemonium acutiflorum) https://docs.google.com/document/d/19H7Ci25SJ4xJas5lrr_whNVp-Xu4QxTd6wPXSPlTCX4/edit?usp=sharing Large-leaved Avens (Geum macrophyllum) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JGdFadC65p3axzK8ms-57aHwGMseXRdGtzm10bDNcwc/edit?usp=sharing Common Yarrow (Achillea milefolium) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DBHPqjUHCD8JarGuQJTkLkNauQWDB2FNaWH4EE6oDzI/edit?usp=sharing
Dichotomous Key
Dichotomous Key for Plant Identification Leaves needle-like or scale-like (Go to 2) Leaves broad and flat (Go to 3) Needles in bundles of 2 or 3: -Plant 1: White Pine (Pinus strobus) -Plant 2: Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) Leaves opposite: -Plant 3: Maple (Acer spp.) -Plant 4: Oak (Quercus spp.) …
pressed plants – Emily Camp
attached below are the pressed plants that I collected last week in Juneau. I kept them under a bunch of books for a week but the really thick Yarrow didn’t fully flatten… if I did this again I would make a proper wood press! I also attached the pages from …
BINGO card
I changed a couple terms, as I was unable to find examples of those things near me, but here is my BINGO card!