Plant+Kingdom+Museum+Display

You and a partner will research on of the major groups of plants, and create a museum display to present to the class. Presentations will last 2-4 minutes, then we will use the museum displays to create an evolutionary tree for the plant kingdom.
 * The Plant Kingdom!**

Your museum display should consist of a one-page fact sheet about this group of plants. For consistency, a Google Docs template will be provided. To access this template, log onto Google Docs using the St. Vrain portal. 1. From school, simply type the word “portal” as your URL, then click the “Google Apps” link. From home, use [|http://docs.svvsd.org] to log on. 2. Find the “Create New” button, and click the “From template…” option. 3. On the left-hand side of the page that opens, under the “Narrow by Category” menu, click the “Science” link. 4. Find the template titled “Plant Kingdom Museum Display,” then click “Use this template”

You are encouraged to use the Diversity of Life guide in the back of your textbook, as well as additional (credible!) online resources. For this project, you may use lists and short sentences to describe your group – the kind of thing that a visitor to a museum could stop and read in a minute or two.

When your display is finished, please add your teacher to the list of people who can view this document (by clicking the “Private to…” link next to the document title). This is how you will turn in your project so that it can be displayed using the computer and digital projector in our classroom while you present to the class.

(The museum display template)

Plant Groups (these will be randomly assigned):

11. Algae - Green and Brown

01. Bryophytes - Mosses

02. Bryophytes - Liverworts

03. Bryophytes - Hornworts

04. Seedless vascular plants - Ferns

05. Seedless vascular plants - Horsetails

06. Seedless vascular plants - Club mosses / Lycopods

07. Gymnosperms - Conifers

08. Gymnosperms - Ginkgos and Cycads

09. Angiosperms - Monocots

10. Angiosperms - Dicots

12. Angiosperms - Water lilies (???)