Photosynthesis WebQuest

 

 

Lesson Objective: By participating in and completing this assignment each student will learn by researching information online. The project options allow students to show communication skills such as writing (handwriting and typing), speaking during presentations, and associating images to topics to enhance understanding. The more artistic students may illustrate their images, but using pictures from the internet is allowed. The students will be held accountable to write and speak in complete and coherent sentences.

 

California Content Standard: The task I have created is for high school life science and biology. The focus of the project will be photosynthesis, but will highlight chloroplasts and covers the content standard: “f. Students know usable energy is captured from sunlight by chloroplasts and is stored through the synthesis of sugar from carbon dioxide.”

Web Resources:

1. One of the online sources the students can use is found at nature.com and will give the students an overview of the photosynthetic process as well as illustrations of chloroplasts and their composition.

2. Another online resource for students is at biology.edu and it provides more vocabulary and information on the chemical reaction involved in photosynthesis.

3. Lastly, presentation of the steps of photosynthesis that students can interact with will be provided at highered.mcgraw-hill.com.

 

Research Questions:

Essential Question: What is photosynthesis and what happens to the products made by plants when they go through the photosynthetic process?

Follow-Up Questions:

1. Through what part of the plant does carbon dioxide enter?

2. What is meant by carbon dioxide fixation?

3. Explain why/how water is used during photosynthesis? What happens to the molecules of Hydrogen and Oxygen?

4. Compare and contrast the products that are consumed and/or produced during light-based reactions versus those in the Calvin cycle.

5. What organelle is vital for photosynthesis that is not found in animal cells?