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Bend, Reach Touch:
Investigating Tropisms in Plants
- Level: High School
- Topic: Plant Physiology
Description:
As part of a botany unit, this inquiry lab involves students in observing and investigating plant responses to environmental stimuli (tropisms). Students observe tropisms in plants and develop experiments to test phototropism, geotropism and thigmotropism. Students also investigate the plant hormones that induce these responses. Assessments include writing a grant proposal, maintaining a lab journal and producing a final poster for a meeting presentation.
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Research Host:
Kent L. Thornburg Ph.D.
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- Great Falls High School
Great Falls, MT
- 2002 Explorations in Biomedicine
- Summer Research Teacher
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- Oregon Health & Science University
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- 2002 Explorations in Biomedicine
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student-centered learning activities
include:
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In this
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| An inquiry level of 4 or 5 | 5 |
| An integrated Internet component | Yes |
| Assessments for content knowledge | Yes |
Assessments for process skills | Yes |
| Addressed the "ABC" rules for humans
and/or animal use | N/A |
| Use of multiple learning
styles and opportunities for all students | Yes |
| Proper safety precautions and
warnings | Yes |
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The Frontiers in Physiology
programs are developed and sponsored by the American
Physiological Society with additional funding from the
National Center for Research Resources (Science Education
Partnership Award #RR15251) at the National Institutes
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