Learning Paths
Each learning path is one chapter: a guided route through a topic, one small course at a time. Pick a class to see its chapters in order.
Chapter 5
Morphology of Flowering Plants
A mango tree, a wheat plant and a rose look nothing alike, yet each has roots, a stem, leaves and flowers built on the same plan. Morphology is the study of that outward form. In this chapter you describe the root, the stem and the leaf and the many shapes they take, then the flower, the fruit and the seed, and finally the families of plants that botanists use to sort them. Python sorts plants by their features.
3 courses
Chapter 6
Anatomy of Flowering Plants, Plant Tissues
Cut a stem and look through a microscope: inside there are tubes that carry water, tubes that carry food, and cells that give strength. Anatomy is the study of this inner plan. In this chapter you meet the tissues of a plant, how they are arranged into systems in the root, stem and leaf, and how a tree grows thicker year after year. Python counts the rings of a trunk.
3 courses
Chapter 2Contains Standard content
Plant Tissues, Animal Tissues
A single cell can do every job, but your body has trillions of cells, and they share the work. Cells of one kind that work together form a tissue. In this chapter we meet the tissues of plants, which grow, store food, give strength and carry water. Then we meet the tissues of animals, which cover the body, join its parts, move it and carry messages. We use Python to count, measure and compare.
3 courses