Fast Plants

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Fast Plants Butterflies
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Objectives

• Care for two organisms through their life
  cycles.
• Maintain a written log of observations, notes
  and explanations.
• Describe how butterflies and plants interact.

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When is life in balance?

• During the next five weeks, students will care
  for their butterflies and plants, witnessing
  first hand how they both grow, develop, mature
  and reproduce.

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When is life in balance?

• The dilemma is that while butterflies and plants
  depend on each other for survival, the butterfly
  larvae have the capability of destroying an
  entire population of plants.
• Are the two populations (butterflies and plants)
  really living in balance?

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Eggs hatching and larvae starting to feed on a
leaf.
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Mon. 5/7/07

• Actions Plant fast plants
• Observations
• Describe the larva. Look for exoskeletons.
• Describe the planting process in detail
• Drawing
• Draw the larva and leaves of plants.
• Draw plant set up. Label quad and wicks.
• Draw an egg

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Larva molting and leaving exoskeleton behind.
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Wed. 5/9/07

• Actions Water fast plants until wicks drip.
• Observations
• Describe the larva.
• Look for exoskeletons and describe
• Describe the plants that you see.
• Drawing Draw the larva.
• Draw your plants if present.

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Thurs. 5/10/07

• Actions Observe larva plants.
• Observations
• Describe the larva. Look for exoskeletons.
• Drawing Draw the larva. Label parts of the
  caterpillar using the diagram on the handout.
• Draw plant and label cotyledons

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cotyledons
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Chrysalises
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Mon. 5/14/07

• Actions Observe plants and thin to one per cell
• Observations
• Describe the chrysalises in the greenhouse.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the true leaves.
• How do the true leaves differ from the
  cotyledons
• Data
• Record height of plant in a neat table
• Drawing
• Draw plant label true leaves
• cotyledons
• Draw root system, is it fibrous or a taproot?

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Fast plant with true leaves
True leaf
cotyledons
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Wed. 5/16/07

• Actions Observe plants pupas
• Observations
• Describe the chrysalises.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Look for flower buds.
• Describe health of cotyledons.
• Data
• Record height of plant in a neat table
• Drawing
• Draw plant label true leaves
• cotyledons flower buds
• Draw a close up of the chrysalis
• Draw the butterfly life cycle (use handout)

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Flower buds
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Fri. 5/18/07

• Actions Observe plants pupas
• Observations
• Describe the chrysalises.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Look for flower buds.
• Describe health of cotyledons.
• Data
• Record height of plant in a neat table
• Drawing
• Draw plant label true leaves cotyledons
• flower buds

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Mon. 5/21/07

• Actions
• Observe plants butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the flowers
• Data
• Record height of plant in a neat table. Is
• the height of the plant changing?
• Drawing
• Draw plant label true leaves
• cotyledons flower buds flowers
• Draw butterflies

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Flowers
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Wed. 5/23/07

• Actions Observe plants butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the flowers
• Drawing
• Draw a close up of the flower label petals,
  sepals, Pistil, stigma, style, ovary, stamen,
  anther and filament.

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Anther Filament Stigma Style Ovary Petal Sepal
Pistil Stamen
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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Thurs. 5/26/05

• Actions Observe plants butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the flowers
• What is happening to the flowers?
• Any sign of fruit?
• Drawing
• Draw plant label true leaves cotyledons
• flower buds flowers

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Fri. 5/25/07

• Actions Observe plants butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the flowers
• What is happening to the flowers?
• Any sign of fruit?
• Drawing
• Butterfly label head, thorax, abdomen,
• antenna, proboscis, and wings.

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Tues. 5/29/07

• Actions Observe plants
• Observations
• Describe the fast plants.
• Describe the fruit
• What part of the flower is becoming the
• fruit?
• Look for larva and/or eggs on your plant. If you
  cant find it on your plant, look on another one.
  Describe the leaves that have larva on it.
• Drawing
• Draw plant label fruits.

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Wed. 5/31/06

• Actions Observe plants butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Look for eggs on the plants.
• Describe the fruit
• What part of the flower is becoming the fruit?
• Drawing
• Draw plant label fruits.

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Thurs. 6/2/05

• Actions
• Observe plants butterflies
• Release Butterflies
• Observations
• Describe the butterflies.
• Describe the fast plants.
• Look for eggs on the plants.
• Describe the fruit
• Drawing
• Draw plant label fruits.

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Fast Plant/Butterfly Journal Fri. 5/30/07

• Actions
• Observe plants
• Cut open fruit
• Clean up and turn in journal by end of class
• Observations
• Describe cut open fruit
• Data
• Record number of seeds in one fruit.
• Record number of fruits on one plant
• Calculate number of seeds one plant can produce
• Drawing
• Draw cut open fruit
• Label fruit and seeds

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Seed Fruit