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Standard:
2e Students know how sugar, water, and minerals are transported in a vascular plant.
Holistic Rating: Moderate coverage of this standard.
Pages 41-43 in the "Food and Nutrition" Science Stories provide moderate coverage.
The standard does not specify the terms "xylem" and phloem" for the different classes of tubes in vascular plants. The California Science Framework includes these terms as does the text. The Framework includes evaporation from the leaves; this is not addressed in this text. |
Aspects that do not help student learning:
Learning is entirely from text with no active learning opportunities in the student text.
Comparisons of vascular and nonvascular plants can help students understand the roles and benefits of xylem and phloem. Describing how sugar gets from the leaves to the roots (carrots, sweet potatoes), fruit (apples, bananas) and stalk (celery) that we eat would help students understand the role of the phloem.
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