Plants make their own food using energy from the sun. The food plants make (and eat) is called glucose. What particles do you see in glucose? (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen) Knowing that matter can neither be created or destroyed, where might the particles in glucose have come from? As a seed grows, where does the plant's matter come from? Grade 5 students make a claim: Plant matter comes from A) soil, B) water, C) air, or D) sunlight. Students investigate photosynthesis and explain how plants make the air we breathe. It's why we plant a tree to help the earth!
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Students observe the sunflowers in our school garden. They wonder: Why do bees visit the sunflowers in our school garden? What are they looking for? Why do bees have pollen on their legs and wasps don't? Do wasps pollinate too? Which is a better pollinator, bees or wasps?
What happens when a flower gets pollinated? What would happen if a flower did not get pollinated? Could we engineer a solution? Grade 3 students learn about the importance of bees as pollinators, the decline in bee populations, and engage in the engineering design process to create hand pollinators. This is a photo of my family. People say that children look like their parents. How do we explain this phenomenon? Why do children look alike, but not exactly like, their parents?
Think about other living things in our world. Do baby animals look like their parents? What variations can we observe? Do seeds grow to look exactly like the parent plant, or is there some variation? Grade 1 students investigate. Looking at the traits of sunflowers in our garden, we note variations and choose one favorite flower to harvest seeds from. Students choose the tallest sunflower in the garden! We will plant its seeds next spring. We are curious if they will grow to be as tall as the parent plant, or if there will be some variation in the height of our sunflowers. Onward! These photos depict different habitats in Utah, including desert, forest, wetland, grassland, and tundra. What habitat is most common in Utah? least common? What kind of habitat do we live in here in Ogden City? What rules should we use to decide? What evidence do we have to support our claim?
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