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Plant Disease Detectives
In this activity, students act as detectives, piecing together information from the sources provided to identify common plant diseases, including the type of pathogen causing it, ways in which the disease is spread, and how to stop the spread.
The activity will help students to demonstrate the following...
Plant Disease Practicals - Identifying the Cause of Brown Rot
In this practical activity, students explore how the technique of re-infection (using infected material to infect healthy plant tissue) can help to identify the cause of a plant disease.
Ideas about communicable diseases in plants are included in the updated programmes of study for Key Stage 4 science...
Plant Disease Practicals - Investigating Violet Bramble Rust
In this practical activity, students use magnification to examine leaves showing symptoms of a common plant disease, and produce labelled drawings of the fungal spores.
Ideas about communicable diseases in plants are included in the updated programmes of study for Key Stage 4 science published in December...
Plant Disease Practicals - Powdery Mildew
In this practical and data analysis activity students collect samples of leaves showing samples of infection with powdery mildew; the samples can be sent for analysis as part of the Powdery Mildew Survey citizen science project.
Students analyse data from the survey at the end of this activity.
Plant disease practicals: identifying the cause of brown rot
In this practical activity, students explore how the technique of re-infection (using infected material to infect healthy plant tissue) can help to identify the cause of a plant disease.
The activity will help students to demonstrate the following learning outcome at KS4:
- describe ways to...
Plant disease practicals: investigating violet bramble rust
In this practical activity, students use magnification to examine leaves showing symptoms of a common plant disease and produce labelled drawings of the fungal spores.
The activity will help students to demonstrate the following learning outcomes at KS4:
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describe a common plant disease...
Plant disease practicals: powdery mildew
In this practical and data analysis activity, students collect samples of leaves showing samples of infection with powdery mildew; the samples can be sent for analysis as part of the ...
Plant diseases: GCSE *suitable for home teaching*
The activities in this resource relate to communicable plant diseases, the use of monoclonal antibody diagnostic tests (ELISA), and the use of genome sequencing in identifying plant pathogens. The activities are based around tasks carried out in the ‘real...
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Plant growth
The growth of plants in space is a keen area of experimentation, including ongoing work aboard the International Space Station. Successful crops will help astronauts to spend longer in space, boosting their healthy diet while reducing the mass of prepared food that must be transported from Earth.
Using a...