Hereditary Lesson 3 - Lesson Guide

SCIENCE Lesson Guide / Instruction (To be sent to each student) Date

: 2 July 2009

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Theme: Cycles Topic: From Parents to Young – Hereditary (C) Hereditary characteristics in plants Learning Objectives: 1. Identify the characteristics that a young can inherit from its parents. 2. List examples of characteristics that can be passed on from parent plants to their young. Get ready the following • •

My Pals Are Here Textbook pages 9. Tune in to okto channel of MediaCorp at 10.28am

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Okto channel “Plants Make New Plants” – 10.28am (13min 27s) You will be learning about the characteristics plants inherit from their parent plants. You will need the textbook and internet access for this lesson. You will read the textbook first. As you read, Go through the following checklist: o Do you know the characteristics of plants? o Do you know whether these characteristics are passed on from their parent? o What are the characteristics that are passed on from their parent plants?

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Read up more on about the basic of plants and reproduction http://www.biology4kids.com/files/plants_main.html Read about hereditary of plants – a research by Mendel’s Genetics http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm

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Great Plant Escape – A learning trail to know more about the world or Plants http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/gpe.html