Friday, February 8, 2008

Biology (Plant Life Systems)

Each person will be responsible for completing the following and posting the information either in their personal wiki or on a linked page within the class wiki:
1) Draw a picture (either in Paint,Photoshop or on paper and scan) of photosynthesis occuring in a chloroplast. Include oxygen, carbon dioxide,glucose,water,and light. Under your diagram write one paragraph on what would occur to a plants homeostasis if their was a drought.
2)Either a)Draw your own picture of plant transport (xylem & phloem) or b)take a picture of something that represents plant transport and explain it
3)A one paragraph summary of an article written about plant reproduction (include link to actual article). Helpful links include: Discovery,ScienceDaily,Nature,SciAmerica,NationalGeographic
4)Either a)create a podcast (Read first "comment")discussing how auxins and tropisms and stomates/stomata are part of plant regulation or b)create a song/poem/rap discussing how tropisms (and auxins) and stomates/stomata are part of plant regulation

1 comment:

Mr. Cerny said...

Podcast Instructions:
To insert a Podcast that you recorded into a Wiki or Blog site:
1) Plug in mirophone if computer does not have a built-in microphone. Many headphones work as a microphone. Pocket PC's have a built-in microphone, save to card and transfer over to a computer.
2) Click: Start, All Programs,Accessories, Entertainment,Sound recorder
3) Click red button to start recording, black sqaure to stop, save recording
4)Open up Explorer and go to Evoca.com / Log in: username: nwbiology, password: nwfalcons
5)Click on "upload a recording" and browse to find your saved recording
6)Follow the instructions to save your recording as a Podcast in evoca.com
7)Click on insert media (or something similar) in the program you are inserting it into in(wiki or blog)
8)The program will ask to embed html: go to the evoca site and click on the title of your saved Podcast, scrukk down/click on "html" , copy & paste code (first code for wiki second code for blog)