GETTING STARTED! Can we live in a world without plants?
- This unit provides an introduction to the topic of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process by which the plants produce their own “food” (sugar) and oxygen as a by-product.
- It is essential that we consider why we can’t live in a world without plants.
- Children explore how vital plants are to their own continued existence and the continued existence of most living organisms on earth.
- General Introduction
- GETTING STARTED! Can we live in a world without plants?
- Module 1 The burning candle
- Module 2 Carbon dioxide in exhaled air
- Module 3 Joseph Priestley’s experiment
- Module 4 Measuring oxygen production using a water plant
- Module 5 My own oxygen consumption
- Module 6 How plants grow
- Module 7 The photosynthesis equation
- Module 8 Starch in leaves (Botanic Garden)
- Module 9 Water movement in plants
(Botanic Garden) - Module 10 Review – How plants grow