How Plants Use Their Resources Lesson

In this lesson students will learn different ways plant traits and structures help plants survive by comparing and contrasting riparian and desert plant species through their leaf area and mass. 

  • Objectives
    • I will understand how certain plants have different traits or structures that make them survive and be successful.
  • Grades: 9 to 12
  • Time: 3 days
  • Author: B Medina 

Arizona Standards Engaged

HS.L1U1.20: Ask questions and/or make predictions based on observations and evidence to demonstrate how cellular organization, structure, and function allow organisms to maintain homeostasis.

HS+B.L4U1.2: Engage in argument from evidence that changes in environmental conditions or human interventions may change species diversity in an ecosystem.