Target Student Performance
Students explain how matter moves and changes and how energy changes during cellular respiration in a potato plant’s cells.
Resources You Provide
- (from previous lesson) 3.5 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Plants
Resources Provided
- 4.2 Explanations Tool for Potato Cellular Respiration (1 per student)
- 4.2 Grading the Explanations Tools for Potato Cellular Respiration
- 4.2 Explaining How Potato Plants Move and Function: Cellular Respiration PPT
- 4.2 How do Plants Get the Energy They Need to Move and Function? Reading (1 per student)
Recurring Resources
- Three Questions 11x17 Poster (1 per class)
- Three Questions Handout (Color Version) (1 per student)
- Three Questions Handout (BW Version) (1 per student)
- Questions, Connections, Questions Student Reading Strategy
- Plants Matter Tracing Tool
- Assessing the Plants Matter Tracing Tool
- (Optional) Example Plant Explanations Handout (1 per student or per group)
Setup
Print one copy of the 4.2 Explanations Tool for Potato Cellular Respiration for each student. Return students’ completed versions of the 3.5 Evidence-Based Arguments Tool for Plants for review. In this activity, your students will need to use the Three Questions Explanation Checklist on the back of the Three Questions Handout. Be sure to have this available to students, and see the notes in the Modifications at the end of the Activity for ideas about how to use it.