{"id":3060,"date":"2017-07-11T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2017-07-11T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T05:58:12","slug":"how-do-plants-eat-photosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/07\/11\/how-do-plants-eat-photosynthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Plants Eat? &#8211; Photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photosynthesis is one of the essential concepts to learn in biology. It is the key chemical process that produces energy for life. However, this complex chemical reaction that occurs inside of plants is complicated for most students to grasp. \u00a0Therefore, there are many misconceptions that students have about the process of photosynthesis. \u00a0A common misconception is that plants obtain their nutrients from the soil instead of producing organic compounds through the process of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>3 Step T-GEM\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Generate<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To generate information about the process of photosynthesis, educators can begin a discussion with open-ended questions to measure students\u2019 current understanding. The questions are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What do plants need to grow and survive?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why do you think those needs are important for plants to grow and survive?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do you think plants obtain nutrients?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the activity, have students come up with answers and compile those answers in a Google Doc to share with the rest of the class. As a group activity, students will discuss and attempt to predict what the relationship between what plants need to grow and survive and how they obtain nutrients is. \u00a0Once the discussion is complete, add each student group\u2019s prediction to the corresponding Google doc<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Evaluate<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will explore how plants produce food through a hands-on experiment and by exploring a computer simulation:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>A hands-on experiment<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; \u00a0\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcedventures.com\/blog\/how-do-leaves-breathe-a-simple-science-experiment-for-kids\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Do Leaves\/plants Breathe and produce food?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the first activity, students record observations and gather answers to the question as a group\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exploring the computer simulation<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harcourtschool.com\/activity\/science_up_close\/512\/deploy\/interface.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.harcourtschool.com\/activity\/science_up_close\/512\/deploy\/interface.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will explore the simulation. It is chosen for this phase is to help students visualize the process. According to Khan (2011), computer simulations can enrich generating relationships and can provide students and teachers with the opportunity to observe trends and variables, as well as visualize the process in more specific ways which may lead to enhanced conceptual understandings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Modify<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this phase, students can modify their ideas after the evaluation stage. The phase provides students with a rich environment where they can work collaboratively to help explain the process utilizing technology. The following activities are included:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ask students to revisit their predictions and incorporate their new information or modify their predictions in the Google doc created during the Generate phase.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ask students to work in groups and re-evaluate the relationship between what plants need to grow and survive and how plants manufacture food.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the relationship is re-evaluated, ask students to create a photosynthesis drawing\/diagram with the help of any drawing software and then share the diagram with the class. For example, students can use Cacoo to create a diagram and share it with the class. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cacoo.com\/assets\/site\/img\/education\/img_education-inspiration03.png\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/cacoo.com\/assets\/site\/img\/education\/img_education-inspiration03.png<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reference:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan, Samia (2011). \u00a0New pedagogies on teaching science with computer simulations. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Science Education and Technology<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 3 pp. 215-232.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photosynthesis is one of the essential concepts to learn in biology. It is the key chemical process that produces energy for life. However, this complex chemical reaction that occurs inside of plants is complicated for most students to grasp. \u00a0Therefore, there are many misconceptions that students have about the process of photosynthesis. \u00a0A common misconception [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-t-gem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}