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How Do Plants Get Energy?

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

How Do Plants Get Energy?

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.oate.lp_plantfood/how-do-plants-get-energy/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

In this lesson, students learn that plants make their own food by converting light energy into sugar (stored energy), which the plants then use to carry out their life processes. Students watch a video and do a Web activity to help them construct an understanding of photosynthesis.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 5

9 ) Construct an illustration to explain how plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into a storable fuel, carbohydrates, and a waste product, oxygen, during the process of photosynthesis.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Crosscutting Concepts: Energy and Matter

Disciplinary Core Idea: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Construct and label an illustration that demonstrates the process of photosynthesis and the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into storable fuel, carbohydrates and oxygen.

Teacher Vocabulary:

convert
carbohydrates
waste product
photosynthesis
carbon dioxide
produces
oxygen

Knowledge:

Students know:

What plants need to survive.
Parts of plants and their functions in the process of photosynthesis.
The sun is the source of energy.
Plants are producers.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Construct an illustration to explain the scientific phenomenon of photosynthesis.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Plants are producers of energy through the process of photosynthesis.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Dynamics of Ecosystems

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.5.9- Using a given model, recognize that plants use light energy to make their own food during the process of photosynthesis.

Tags:

light energy, photosynthesis, plant, stored energy, survival, survive

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Author:

Stephanie Carver

ALEX Classroom Resource

How Do Plants Get Energy?