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Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
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If it is one thing I want my biology students to remember when they leave my class is to understand the interconnectedness of the two major energy systems in living organisms - photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
This is the circle of life (imagine the theme song from The Lion King playing here).
For this foldable, take a sheet of paper, fold almost in half in order to allow a little overhang to serve as the folding closure. Cut down the middle to form the two half flaps.
I have also done this assignment in interactive notebooks.
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As you can see, they used their textbooks to draw the diagrams of the chloroplast and mitochondria including all labels. Inside they diagramed the Light Dependent and Light Independent processes of photosynthesis and the three stages of respiration - glycolysis, Krebs (Citric Acid) cycle, and electron transport chain. The last diagram is essentially the carbon cycle showing how plants (which carry out both functions) and animals are related. Plants capture energy from the sun in order to make ATP which provides the energy for the chemical reactions converting carbon dioxide and water into sugars. The plants can then use those sugars (more importantly for us humans who eat the plants) to carry out cellular respiration to make ATP to provide the energy for all of life's processes - growth, reproduction, movement, etc.
"And yes, I want you to use color!" - answer to most commonly asked student question
