GrowLab: Activities for Growing Minds Chapter Overviews:
Chapter 1: Plants Alive!
Key Concepts:
Plants have basic requirements for growth and
survival including water, nutrients, and light.
Plant health is affected by the quantity and quality
of resources.
Plants have structures, processes, and responses
that help them meet their basic needs.
Soil helps most plants meet their basic needs.
Chapter 2: Generation to Generation
Key Concepts:
Plants change throughout their life cycles.
Plants can reproduce from seeds (sexually) or from
parts (asexually).
Plants have a variety of adaptations to facilitate
reproduction.
Pollination is essential for
plants to produce seeds.
Humans take advantage of plants' many
methods of reproduction.
Chapter 3: The Diversity of Life
Key Concepts:
Variations exist among the offspring of a species.
Plants have adaptations that enable them to survive
in many different environmental conditions and habitats;
this has resulted
in the great diversity of life.
Humans develop systems to make sense
of diversity.
Humans take
advantage of naturally occurring plant variations
and manipulate plant genetics to meet
human needs and preferences.
Human actions can negatively affect
the diversity of life on Earth.
Chapter 4: Sharing the Global Garden
Key Concepts:
All living and nonliving things are interdependent;
a change in one element affects all.
The recycling of all nutrients on Earth depends largely
on decomposers.
Humans depend on plants to meet many basic
needs.
Human activities have an impact on all
other parts of the ecosystem; there
are long-term
environmental
consequences to
human actions.
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