This document provides a graphic self-learning module about life in plants for students in Class VI. It outlines 14 activities for students to do involving observing the growth, regeneration, response to stimuli, and respiration in plants. The activities are designed to help students understand these key processes and recognize them as common features of plants. The module uses questions, diagrams, and experiments to engage students in exploring plant processes hands-on.

1. Graphic Self Learning Module In
Science For The Students Of Class
VI
Prepared By
Ms. Sushma Singh
Investigator
Ph.D. (Education)
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2. Graphic Self Learning Module
Life In The Plants
Class-VI
Previous Knowledge:-
(1) Students have studied science up to class V.
(2) They have studied about living things.
Objectives:-
(1) Children will study about the growth in plants.
(2) Students will study about the regeneration in the plants.
(3) They will know about stimulation and response in the plants.
(4) Students will study about the respiration in the plants.
Material Required:-
(1) One diagram in which different kinds of plants and animals are
drawn.
(2) Few plants of special types planted in pots.
(3) Beaker, test tube, limewater etc.
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3. Expected answer Activity by the Activity done by
from the teacher. the students.
students.
Achieved objective:
children can
recognize plants,
trees and animals.
You told: (1) What do see in
Trees, plants, the picture given
elephant, dear, in front of you?
fish, tortoise, and You are able to see
frog etc. living trees and
small plants.
You can see -
living animals like
elephant, dear,
fish, duck, tortoise
and frog etc.
You told: (2) What similarity
They are living do you see among
things. the plants and the
animals given in
the picture?
Their shape 1. You notice that
changes. plants and trees
remain fix at one
place but their
size increases/is
not it?
Their size 2. You see that the
increases. elephant, fish etc
move from one
place to another
and their size
increases/is not
it?
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4. Students plant the (3) You plant a
tree in a pot and tree and nourish it
they nourish it with water and
with water and fertilizers and
fertilizers. observe it for a
week and fill the
table given every
day.
S.N. Day Length of No. of leaves No. of stems No. of Buds No. of
plant flowers
i First
ii Second
iii Third
iv Fourth
v Fifth
vi Sixth
vii Seventh
Achieved objective:
They know
growth.
You told: (4) See the picture
and tell:-
1.Increases i. Does the plant
increase in length
or not?
ii. Multiply ii. Do the number
of branches
multiply or not?
iii. Multiply iii. Do the number
of leaves multiply
or not?
iv. Yes there is a iv. Is there any
bud. bud on the plant
or not?
v. Yes v. Can you see any
flower blooming on
it or not?
vi. Yes there is a vi. Is there any
growth. growth in the
plant or not?
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5. You say: (5) Similarly you
Plant grows. observe the plants
in your kitchen
garden for 15 days
and tell that
whether there is
any growth in the
plants or not?
You say: (6) Think carefully
that you see some
trees and plants
continuously for 2
years what you
observe
i. multiply. i. Do the number
of leaves in the
plants multiply/do
not multiply?
ii. They shed. ii. Do they shed
leaves/not shed?
iii. Yes blossom. iii. Do the flowers
blossom on
them. /do not
iv. Yes become. blossom?
iv. Do flowers
become fruits or
v. Ripen. do not become?
v. Do the fruits
ripen or do not
Yes there is ripen?
growth. On the whole
there is growth in
the plants or not.
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6. Achieved objective: (7) Children! In
Students know the picture, in one
about the of the pots one
regeneration in branch of the
the plants plant is broken. If
They understand you give water and
the regeneration fertilizers for
in the plants very about one week
well you see that its
broken branch
regenerates again.
So growing of the
branches again in
the plant is called
regeneration. Do
you understand
regeneration in
the plants/do not
you?
It is called (8) In the picture
regeneration. you see a pot and
Very well. broken plant.
You nourish it for
about one week
you see that its
branch
regenerates. So
growing of
branches again is
called
regeneration in
the plant/is not
it?
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7. Achieved (9) Student! You
objective : see the plant in
They know the pot, in the
reaction to the picture. Cover it
stimuli. with a card board
They understand box with hole. So
response to the that from the hole
stimuli. plant gets light.
Very good. Now after one
week the situation
of the plant will be
like the picture.
You find that the
plant is bent
towards the light.
This is called the
response and this
process is
response to the
stimuli/do you
understand
stimuli and
response /do not
you?
Response to the (10) Students! You
stimuli. have seen ‘touch
me not’ plant.
Very well. When you touch
it, its leaves
shrink. This is
called response to
the stimuli/is not
it. The leaves of
this plant are
sensitive so it is
called touch me
not.
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8. 11. Response to (11) You have seen
the stimuli. ‘ Portulaca’ plant
(Rat Ki Rani) its
flowers blossom at
night tell me it is
Very well. response to the
stimuli or not?
Response to the (12) You observe
stimuli. ‘Sunflower’ plant
during the day.
You see its flower
and leaves keep
bending towards
Very good. the sun. This is
also called
response to
stimuli.
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9. They are able to (13) You observe a
understand plant for about one
week you see that its
growth,
broken branch
regeneration and regenerates and its
response to the bud becomes flower.
stimuli. In this plant growth
and regeneration
occurred together.
Now cover the plant
under the card board
with hole. After few
days due to stimuli
plant bends towards
the light. Here you
see in the same plant
with the growth and
regeneration there is
response to stimuli
also. So now you are
able to understand
growth, regeneration
and response to
stimuli/ don’t you
understand?
Very well.
You have matched (14) See the 1. Response to
them correctly. pictures and stimuli.
match the
pictures with
growth,
regeneration and
response to
stimuli.
2. Growth.
3. Regeneration.
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10. Achieved
objectives:
They know
(15) Now take two
respiration. small plants in pot A
and pot B.
1. Keep the pot A in
open.
2. Keep the pot B
covered with gas jar
and make it
vacuumed and close
the jar. Observe both
the plants for one
week and see.
You told 1. The plant in pot A
is green/ or not
1. It is green.
green.
2. It is not green. 2. The plant in pot B
is green/ or not
green.
3. It has become 3. Now remove the
green. gas jar from the pot B
and observe the plant
Very well.
for two or three days
the plant becomes
green again/or not.
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11. You told: (16) Take a pot
It is called with plant see its
respiration. leaves from both
sides. You can see
small holes in it.
Through these
holes plants take
oxygen. There is
an exchange of
carbon dioxide
and oxygen here.
It is a complex
process. And it is
called
respiration/does
not it?
It turns milky. (17) In a test tube take
limewater and blow it with
Very good. straw you see that lime
water turns milky/is not
it?
Its means that there is
carbon dioxide in the air
which comes out while
breathing, Now take two
beakers. In beaker A put
some soaked gram seeds.
In beaker B put boiled
gram seeds and cover
both the beakers with gas
jars. Keep them for four
and five days. Now put
the lime water in both the
jars and observe.
1. In beaker A limewater
turns milky.
2. In beaker B limewater
does not turn milky.
In beaker A limewater
turned milky because in
germinated plant there
was respiration process.
Germinated plants take
oxygen and leave carbon
dioxide.
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12. It is called (18)Living plants
respiration. absorb oxygen and
release carbon
dioxide this
process is called
Very well. respiration/is not
it?
Process. (19)Respiration is
a ------ in which
plants take oxygen
and release
carbon dioxide.
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13. (20- a) Till now
you have seen in
the plants.
1. There is
growth/is not it?
2. There is
regeneration/ is
not it?
3. There is
response to the
stimuli./or not?
4. There is
respiration/is not
it?
You told these are (20-b) So now tell
common features growth,
of plants. regeneration,
Very good. response to
stimuli and
respiration is
common features
of plants/is not?
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14. (20- a) Till now
you have seen in
the plants.
1. There is
growth/is not it?
2. There is
regeneration/ is
not it?
3. There is
response to the
stimuli./or not?
4. There is
respiration/is not
it?
You told these are (20-b) So now tell
common features growth,
of plants. regeneration,
Very good. response to
stimuli and
respiration is
common features
of plants/is not?
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15. (20- a) Till now
you have seen in
the plants.
1. There is
growth/is not it?
2. There is
regeneration/ is
not it?
3. There is
response to the
stimuli./or not?
4. There is
respiration/is not
it?
You told these are (20-b) So now tell
common features growth,
of plants. regeneration,
Very good. response to
stimuli and
respiration is
common features
of plants/is not?
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