Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Asteridae - Compositae II

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
Familiar edible plants
-artichoke
-lettuce
-sunflower

Activity:
Add artichoke, lettuce, and sunflower to Plant Kingdom tree
Cook a salad with artichokes and lettuce, and sunflower seeds
Try out some different products made from sunflowers
Plant sunflowers in the garden; observe how they turn their heads toward the sun

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Asteridae - Compositae I

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
Familiar non-edible plants
-thistles
-gerber daisies
-African daisies
-marigolds
-chrysanthemums

Activity:
Add daisies and thistles to Plant Kingdom tree
Go out in the garden and see how many kinds of Compositae plants we have

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Asteridae

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
More foods!
-plantains (how are they different from bananas?)
-potato, tomato
-coffee
-olive (and lilac)
And more flowers!
-morning glory
-periwinkle, oleander
-bellflower
-honeysuckle

Activity:
Add potato, coffee, olive, periwinkle and morning glory to Plant Kingdom tree
Go out in the garden and see how many kinds of Asteridae plants we have
Cook with the foods mentioned - Greek omelette breakfast, anyone?

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Lamiidae

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
Herbs - growing herbs in a garden

Activity:
Add mint and sage to Plant Kingdom tree
Cook some things using herbs from the Lamiidae family

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Rosidae III

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
A mixed bag, showing the diversity of Rosidae plants
-roses
-flax
-dogwood, holly
-frankincense and myrrh
-mahogany
-mangrove
-eucalyptus
-ivy

Activity:
Add roses, dogwood, frankincense, mahogany, mangrove, eucalyptus, and ivy to Plant Kingdom tree
Take a walk and identify all the Rosidae plants; see how many you can get.  Reward with equal number of jelly beans.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Rosidae II

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
From Maple Tree to Syrup by Melanie Mitchell
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
Types of Rosidae plants we eat
-legumes
-cashew, mango
-maple syrup
-tree fruits (apples, pears, citrus, stone fruit, raspberries, blackberries)
-tree nuts (walnuts, hickory, pecans)
-root vegetables (carrots, parsnips, celery, fennel)
-grapes
-pomegrante
What do all these plants have in common?

Activity:
Add apples, oranges, carrots, walnuts, beans, and maples to Plant Kingdom tree
Go through kitchen and pantry, identifying foods that come from Rosidae

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Rosidae I

Venus fly trap - The Private Life of Plants - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife
Poisonous Pitcher plant - The Private Life of Plants - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Insect-Eating Plants by L. Patricia Kite
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby

Discussion:
Why do some plants eat animals?

Activity:
Add venus fly trap to Plant Kingdom tree
Field Trip to United States Botanic Garden

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Hamamelidae

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby
Why Do Leaves Change Color? by Betsy Maestro and Loretta Krupinski
First Field Guide: Trees by the National Audubon Society

Vocabulary Added:
hamamelidae: oaks and their relatives

Discussion:
Leaves with net-like veins

Activity:
Go outside.  Identify Hamamelids (oak, beech, chestnut, birch, hazelnut)
Obtain acorns, hazelnuts, beech nuts, chestnuts.  Cook and eat if possible.
Add hamamelidae to Plant Kingdom tree

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Overview

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life Vol. 10: The Dicotyledons by Michael Allaby
First Field Guide: Trees by the National Audubon Society

Discussion:
Review of Monocots vs. Dicots

Activity:
Add dicots to Plant Kingdom tree
Go outside.  Identify again monocots vs. dicots.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Dicots - Magnolias

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
First Field Guide: Trees by the National Audubon Society
It Could Still Be a Flower by Allan Fowler

Vocabulary Added:
angiosperm: vessel-seed
magnolia: (named after a French botanist, Magnol)

Discussion:
Flowers - structure, parts, purpose
Pollination
Fruit
Sassafras - an ancient magnolid

Activity:
Go outside.  Identify Magnolias.
Obtain nutmeg.  Grate it.  Cook something with it.
Add dicots - magnolias - to Plant Kingdom tree

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Monocots - Lillidae

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 9: The Monocotyledons by Michael Allaby
Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Flowers by Dwight Kuhn and Elaine Pascoe

Vocabulary Added:
lillidae: lily order
iridaceae: rainbow (iris)
liliaceae: lillies
amaryllidaceae: daffodils
agavaceae: agave
orchidaceae: orchids

Discussion:
"bulb" plants
Orchids - picture study - evolution with pollinators

Activity:
Add musaceae, zingiberaceae to the Plant Kingdom Tree
Dig up some bulb flowers.  Cut one open to look inside.
Eat an onion.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Monocots - Arecidae

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 9: The Monocotyledons by Michael Allaby
Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko

Vocabulary Added:
arecidae: palm

Discussion:
Palm trees - where they grow, kinds of fruits and products used

Activity:
Add arecidae to the Plant Kingdom Tree
Cook something with dates and coconuts, palm oil, hearts of palm
See if you can find a palm growing somewhere (maybe in someone's house...)

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Monocots - Musaceae and Zingiberaceae

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 9: The Monocotyledons by Michael Allaby
Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko

Vocabulary Added:
musaceae: banana
zingiberaceae: ginger

Discussion:
How ginger and bananas grow, get pollinated

Activity:
Add musaceae, zingiberaceae to the Plant Kingdom Tree
Cook something with bananas and ginger

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Monocots - Commelinidae - Graminae, Cyperaceae, Juncaceae

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 9: The Monocotyledons by Michael Allaby
Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
From Cane to Sugar by Jill Braithwaite

Vocabulary Added:
commelinidae:
graminae: grass
cyperaceae: (sedges)
juncaceae: (rushes)

Discussion:
cereals are grasses
famous sedge - papyrus
rushes we know - cattails

Activity:
Add graminae, cyperaceae, juncaceae to the Plant Kingdom Tree
Go outside.  Find examples of the three families studied. Cut the sedge open and compare to the grass.  Bake something with flour.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Monocots - Overview

Plants and Plant Life Vol. 9: The Monocotyledons by Michael Allaby
Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko

Vocabulary Added:
monocot: one-leaf
dicot: two-leaf

Discussion:
What is a monocot?  How is it different from a dicot?

Activity:
Obtain a monocot and dicot.  Compare.  (Example: bulb flower/grass/palm vs. bean plant/rose/oak)
Add monocots to the Plant Kingdom Tree
Draw a comparison of monocots/dicots

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Nymphaeales and Piperales

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Experiments with Plants by Salvatore Tocci

Vocabulary Added:
nymphaeales: water-guardians
piperales: pepper

Discussion:
Why are these two types of plants different from all other flowering plants?

Activity:
Field Trip to Brookside Gardens - examine water lilies
Add water lily and pepper to the Plant Kingdom tree
Draw and label a water lily or pepper plant
Make a bean plant maze using the beans that, hopefully, have germinated

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - Angiosperms - Overview

Classifying Flowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
Experiments with Plants by Salvatore Tocci

Vocabulary Added:
angiosperm: vessel-seed

Discussion:
Flowers - structure, parts, purpose
Pollination
Fruit

Activity:
Go outside.  Find 5 flowering plants and show what is common to them all.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - "Gymnosperms"

Life on Earth - 03 - The First Forests (34:10-42:00)

Classifying Nonflowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
First Field Guide: Trees, National Audubon Society
Plants and Plant Life, Vol. 8: Conifers by Michael Allaby
From Tree to Paper by Pam Marshall

Vocabulary Added:
cycad: palm (which is dumb, because it's not a palm)
conifer: cone-bearer
ginkgo: silver fruit (with apologies for its long etymological journey into English)

Discussion:
Ways of protecting seeds - cones, shells, nuts, etc.

Activity:
Add cycad, ginko, and conifer to the Plant Kingdom tree
Collect pine cones; open them up and look inside.  Look for mature/immature cones on trees.  See how many types you can find.

Plants - Embryophytes - Tracheophytes - 'Pteridophytes'

Equisetum hyemale releases spores
Life on Earth - 03 - The First Forests (21:40-28:08)

Classifying Nonflowering Plants by Francine D. Galko
Plants and Plant Life, Vol 7: Mosses and Ferns by Jill Bailey
Experiments with Plants by Salvatore Tocci

Vocabulary Added:
tracheophyte: throat-plant
pteridophyte: fern-plant
pterophyte: wing-plant
germination: growth from the seed

Discussion:
Inside a seed - plant germination

Activity:
Draw and label a horsetail and fern
Add horsetail and fern to Plant Kingdom tree
Go outside and look for ferns and horsetails
Take beans apart and identify the root, stem, and food parts