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Are Plants Able to Move?
Grade: 5th grade
Maryland VSC: 5.3.A.1.a. Identify and describe features and behaviors of some of the plants and animals living in a familiar environment and explain ways that these organisms are well suited to their environment.
Maryland VSC: 5.3.A.1.a. Identify and describe features and behaviors of some of the plants and animals living in a familiar environment and explain ways that these organisms are well suited to their environment.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to understand and be able to explain that plants have the ability to move towards or away from a stimulus to meet its needs in order to grow, and that this action is called tropism. Students will be designing and conducting an experiment in groups in order to come to this understanding. With a class discussion, students will be familiarized with some different types of tropisms. Students will also get a hands-on experience observing a Mimosa pudica plant in order to learn about Thigmotropism.