Cris+showcase

Plant's Blessing
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 * Unit Summary**:

Can you imagine a world without plants? Plants make the world looks exotic, natural and beautiful. Humans play a crucial part in maintaining these qualities. The understanding of plants diversity and morphologies will bring us to know a better way of appreciating plants with great care and love. Knowing plants better can make us to be a responsible citizen. In this project, students will play the role as botanist  and  promoter. The ultimate goal for this research is  to promote the knowledge of plants diversity and its contribution towards health and economic values. Therefore, students are expected  to organize a trip   to any of the botanical garden. The duration for the whole project is about  6 weeks. The project will be divided into 2 major stages. The first stage requires the students to master the morphology of plants and  to gather information   about plants through the internet about the plants diversity. Instruments such as  checklist and rubric of assessing presentation   will be used to evaluate this stage. Second stage emphasizes the real tour of site-visit at Mesilau Nature Resort at Ranau. During the tour, students will  take pictures   of plants and explanation will also be given by an expert guide who is well verse about plants diversity at Mesilau Natural Resort. Group presentation  will showcase their findings to their   friends, lecturer and demonstrator. The students are also expected  to design    brochures   of plants contribution towards health and economic values. Student will be  evaluated based on the compelling and relevant information   available in the brochures through rubric and checklist. Report  and   sharing of experiences   will also be published in the school bulletin and face book to be viewed by   communities and their friends. The students will use Visual Ranking Tool (VRT)to manage their trip to a site-tour and discussion will be carried out once they’ve done with it. Seeing Reason Tool (SRT) will be used by students to explain the several factors which control the growth and distribution of roots. Apart from that, students will also use the Showing Evidence Tool(SET) to pose their claim and support with evidence. G-Goal   R- Role/Recent Technology      A-Audience      P-Product      S- Set of tasks      E –Evaluation      D-Duration

How would you describe a world without plants?
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Do plants important to human being? How do we use Botany knowledge to nurture plants? How do we take care of plants? How caring are you towards plants? How do you manage a site-tour to a Botanical Garden? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> ** <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">**Content Questions:** ** <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What are the morphologies of plants? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What are plants contributions to human health? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What can you do to help save an endangered species of plants? <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What are the plants which have economic values?
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