Week 8...Deep in the jungles of Colombia there is a kind of flower that attracts bees with its...

Week 8

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The Orchid's Secret

The Orchid's Secretby Josh Adler

Deep in the jungles of Colombia there is a kind of flower that attracts bees with its unique perfume. The male bees store as much scent as possible from this particular flower on their hind legs. The male bees that collect the most scent attract the female bees to mate with them. In Venezuela there is a flower people collect for its large white or yellow petals. Few people ever find it, though, since it only blooms for a few days. There is a small pink and yellow flower that only grows in a very specific part of the state of Florida. It also only grows on trees, and wind or birds may spread its seeds. These flowers are some of the most rare and delicate species in all of nature. They are all types of orchids.

For hundreds of years orchids have been prized discoveries of collectors and adventurers hoping to find new and exotic breeds of the flower. In her book The Orchid Thief, author Susan Orlean tells how in the 1800s orchids became popular in Europe, which made them very valuable. Many "orchid hunters" set out to find and bring back new types of orchids to sell. However, many of the men who went looking for the mysterious orchids met with tragedy instead. Orlean relates that "dozens of hunters were killed by fever or accidents or malaria or foul play. Others became trophies for headhunters or prey for horrible creatures . . . ." Sometimes orchid hunters even were injured or killed by other people.

On one trip to find orchids in 1901, eight hunters ventured to the Philippines, which is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. A tiger ate one hunter, another was badly burned, and five more completely disappeared. The trip's only survivor brought back 7,000 orchids. Even modern-day orchid hunters, like Tom Hart Dyke, still face incredible dangers to collect the flowers. He and his partner, Paul Winder, were held as prisoners for over nine months after they were captured on an orchid hunt in Central America.

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The Orchid's Secret

While the plants have long been valued for their beauty, they may be even more important to science and our understanding of co-evolution. Unlike plants that can self-pollinate, orchids need very specific insects or birds to spread their pollen. The process by which insects, the wind, or birds spread the pollen of different flowers is called pollination. Pollen is a powder produced by plants that contains their genetic material. In order for the plants to reproduce, the pollen must be physically moved to the flower's stigma, which contains an egg. Now the fertilized egg can become a seed. Birds and insects can pollinate plants by touching many different flowers and spreading the pollen around.

Orchids evolved to attract insects and birds. Because there are many different species of orchid, there are also many different ways the orchids attract their pollinators. Orlean explains that "many species look so much like their favorite insects that the insect mistakes them for kin [other insects], and when it lands on the flower to visit, pollen sticks to its body.... Another orchid imitates the shape of something that a pollinating insect likes to kill.... Other species look like the mate of their pollinator, so the bug tries to mate with one orchid and then another... and spreads pollen from flower to flower each hopeless time."

Other orchids don't use their shape at all, but rather produce specialized scents to attract specific insects, such as bees, beetles or flies. Some orchids smell like cake, some like chocolate, and some like rotting meat. All these smells may seem weird or gross, but they exist to lure creatures to their pollen and help the orchids survive. The strategies to attract insects and spread their flowers' pollen go on and on. Each family of orchids has a unique kind of insect or bird that visits their flowers, as well as its own way of attracting them. It has worked, too. According to NOVA, a science television series on PBS, "orchid species number more than 25,000 worldwide." That is more kinds of species than any other flower on the planet, and new ones are still being found.

Orchids and the insects that pollinate them are one of the most amazing examples of evolution. Though their degree of co-dependence varies, as it is apparent that at least some orchids are more reliant on their pollinators than the pollinators are on the orchids, the degree of evolutionary specialization is still very impressive. Research by Harvard scientists suggests that certain species of orchid evolved specifically to attract orchid bees, which collect a wide variety of scents from various plants in preparation for mating. In another case, an orchid mimics a female's smell and appearance-and the male pollinator gets nothing out of the bargain whatsoever. By tricking the insects that collect its pollen, the orchid has survived since the time of the dinosaurs. Shh! It's a secret.


The Orchid's Secret - Comprehension Questions

Name: ___________________________________ Date: _______________

1. What is an orchid?

A. an insect that spreads pollen

B. a scent from a flower that attracts insects

C. a hunter in the Philippines

D. a rare and valuable flower

2. What does this passage describe?

A. This passage describes the Europeans who collected orchids in the 1800s.

B. This passage describes what being a prisoner in Central America is like.

C. This passage describes the life of Susan Orlean.

D. This passage describes orchids and orchid hunting.

3. Read the following sentence: "Unlike plants that can self-pollinate, orchids need very

specific insects or birds to spread their pollen."

What evidence from the passage supports this statement?

A. In Venezuela there is a flower people collect for its large white or yellow petals.

B. There are more than 25,000 species of orchids worldwide.

C. Many orchids use their scent to lure insects to their pollen.

D. Many people who went looking for orchids met with tragedy instead.

4. Why might orchid hunters be willing to face dangerous challenges in order to get

orchids?

A. Orchids are worth a lot of money.

B. Some orchids use their scent to attract insects.

C. Some orchids look like insects.

D. The orchid has survived since the time of the dinosaurs.



5. What is this passage mainly about?

A. the Philippines and the dangers of hunting orchids there

B. orchids, orchid hunting, and orchid pollination

C. an orchid hunt that Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder went on

D. a species of orchids that lives deep in the jungles of Colombia

6. Read the following sentence: "Other orchids don't use their shape at all, but rather

produce specialized scents to attract specific insects, such as bees, beetles or flies.

Some orchids smell like cake, some like chocolate, and some like rotting meat."

What does the word produce mean in the sentence above?

A. remove

B. deliver

C. change

D. make

7. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Many orchids attract insects with smells, _______ cake, chocolate, and rotting meat.

A. such as

B. although

C. meanwhile

D. but

8. What is pollination?



9. What are three ways orchids attract insects to spread their flowers' pollen?

10. The title of the passage is "The Orchid's Secret." Based on the information in the

passage, what secret may the title be referring to? Use information from the passage to

support your answer.


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Eighth Grade: Integrated American History SS080108 Foundations of a New Nation

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Lesson Graphic Organizer

After the French and Indian War, the relationship between Great Britain

and her colonies began to change

Colonists use a variety of mediums to circulate their concerns about British rule

Result: A propaganda campaign that builds public support for rebellion against

British rule

The Social Studies goal for this week is to review and improve your use of historical thinking skills by engaging in a historical analysis of an artifact and its role as propaganda.

Read the Lesson Graphic Organizer, Big idea Cards, and the information provided in the Historical Thinking Skills table. Then using your prior knowledge, the questions as prompts in the Historical Thinking Skills table, and whatever other resources you might have, take some time and analyze the picture of the Boston Massacre. Write your responses in the table titled, “Student Handout: Evaluating Sources”. When finished compare your responses to the sample responses in the answer key.



Big Idea Card

Big Ideas of Lesson

• At first, many colonists wanted to repair their relationship with Great Britain more than they wanted to declare independence.

• As the relationship between the colonies and the British government changed, Boston, Massachusetts became the center of colonial-British conflict.

• In Boston and elsewhere, political and business leaders tried to build public support for their concerns and create a movement to rebel against British rule.

• Colonial leaders employed propaganda, a systematic method of communicating ideas to influence a population toward a cause or position, in order to convince others to join their cause. The pamphlet Common Sense was one example of propaganda from the revolutionary period.

• Propaganda still exists today. While propagandists present information, which may be true or false, they carefully select it for its political effect and communicate it to influence others.



Historical Reading Skills Questions Students Should Be Able

To: Student Prompts

Sourcing

• What kind of artifact is it?

• Who created this?

• When was it created?

• Where was it created?

• What is the author’s perspective?

• Why was it created?

• Is it reliable? Why? Why not?

• Identify the author’s position

on the historical event

• Identify and evaluate the

author’s purpose in producing

the artifact

• Hypothesize what the author

will say before reading the

document

• Evaluate the source’s

trustworthiness by

considering genre, audience,

and purpose

• The author probably believes . . .

• I think the audience is . . .

• Based on the source information, I

think the author might . . .

• I do/don’t trust this document

because . . .

Contextualizing

• When was the document

created?

• Where was the document

created?

• What was different then?

• What was the same?

• How might the circumstances in

which the document was created

affect its content?

• Understand how the

context/background

information influences the

content of the document

• Recognize that documents

are products of particular

points in time

• Based on the background

information, I understand this

document differently because….

• The author might have been

influenced by _________(historical

context)

• The document might not give me the

whole picture because….

Close Reading

• What claims does the author

make?

• What evidence does the author

use?

• What language (words, phrases,

images, symbols) does the author

use to persuade the document’s

audience?

• How does the document’s

language indicate the author’s

perspective?

• Identify the author’s claims

about an event

• Evaluate the evidence and

reasoning the author uses to

support claims

• Evaluate the author’s word

choice; understand that

language is used deliberately

• I think the author chose these words

in order to …

• The author is trying to convince

me….

• The author claims….

• The evidence used to support the

author’s claims is ….



Student Handout: Evaluating Sources

Artifact

Sourcing

Contextualize

Close reading

Monitoring & Questioning

Boston Massacre

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table contains all the elements we know about. As new elements are

discovered or made, they are added to the Periodic Table. Actually all elements past 92

(Uranium) have been made in a lab and have not been found in nature. They are called synthetic

or man-made elements.

The Periodic Table included in this packet is an older one. You will notice that element

113 is missing. That is because at the time this periodic table was published, it had not been

made yet. When scientists looked at the properties of elements 112 and 114, they were different

enough that they believed another element existed in between them. This is why they left the

space open until element 113 was discovered/made. Today, elements 115 through 118 have also

been made.

Another item to notice is that elements 112 and 114 have names that look somewhat

similar to each other and may look a bit odd. That is because, at the time this Periodic Table was

made, elements 112 and 114 did not have official names. Element 112’s name is given as

Ununbium. Ununbium is Latin for the number 112. It is the same for element 114.

Ununquadium is Latin for the number 114. A group of scientists belonging to a group called IUPAC

(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) decide on the names of new elements.

The center of an atomic is called the nucleus. It is made of protons and neutron. Flying around

the nucleus are electrons. Protons and Neutrons are about the same size. Electrons are tiny compared to

them. Electrons are about 10,000 times smaller (by mass) than a proton or a neutron.

That means that most of the mass of an atom is in the nucleus. It also means that most of the

mass of an atom is because of the protons and neutrons.

If you round the mass number to a whole number, that is the number of protons plus

neutrons.

The number of protons and neutrons in Carbon is 12.

Some periodic tables and older textbooks may refer to the mass number as the atomic weight.

Look back at week 6’s answer key for an explanation regarding the difference between mass and weight.

While you may still see the term “atomic weight” being used, it is not an accurate term.

The atomic number tells us the number of protons for an element.

Carbon has an atomic number of 6, so it has 6 protons.

If the mass number is the number of protons + neutrons and the atomic number is the number of neutrons,

then the:

mass number – atomic number = the number of neutrons.

Carbon has 12-6 = 6 neutrons.

Neutrons are neutral which means they have no electrical charge

Protons have a positive charge.

Electrons have a negative charge.

An atom has to be neutral. (If it is not neutral, we call it an ion). In other words, in an atom:

the number of protons = the number of electrons.

So in Carbon, since you have 6 protons (6 positive charges), you will have 6 electrons (6 negative

charges) to balance each other out.

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Memories from a very unusual time

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MY HAIR COLOR:

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WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE:

All about Me

MY EYE COLOR:

MY AGE:

MY NICKNAME:

MY NAME:

MY HEIGHT:

MY STREET # AND STREET: MY HOMETOWN:

GLUE A PICTURE OF

YOURSELF HERE

MY GRADE:


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FAVORITE FOOD:

FAVORITE TREAT:

FAVORITE ANIMAL:

FAVORITE PLACE:

FAVORITE HOBBY:

FAVORITE SPORTS:

FAVORITE BOOK:

FAVORITE BOARD GAME:

FAVORITE MOVIE:

FAVORITE SONG:

FAVORITE APP/VIDEO GAME:

FAVORITE HOLIDAY:

FAVORITE FRIENDS:

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LATE SLEEPER

CAKE

DOG

PASTA

OUTSIDE

DINNER

RAIN

CHOCOLATE

WINTER

JUICE

LISTEN

MOUNTAINS

SHOES

EARLY BIRD

ICE CREAM

CAT

PIZZA

INSIDE

BREAKFAST

SUN

VANILLA

SUMMER

MILK

TALK

BEACH

BAREFOOT

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Circle the word that describes you better.

This or That



At Home

DID YOUR PARENT(S) SWITCH

TO WORKING FROM HOME?

DATE "STAY AT HOME" BEGAN:

DATE "STAY AT HOME" ENDED:

WHO ARE THE PEOPLE AND

ANIMALS LIVING WITH YOU?TAKE A SELFIE WITH YOUR

ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD

AND GLUE IT HERE

YES NO

HOW DO YOU LIKE BEING HOMESCHOOLED?

MOM DAD

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE TEACHER?

MY SCHOOL TEACHER OTHER

WHAT'S BEEN THE BIGGEST CHANGE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?



BAKING ARTS & CRAFTS READING BOARD GAMES LEGOS

VIDEO GAMES VIDEO CALLS WITH FRIENDS OTHER

WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT

BEING STUCK AT HOME?WHAT'S THE WORST THING ABOUT

BEING STUCK AT HOME?

CHALK SCOOTER BIKE RIDE

SOCCER TRAMPOLINE OTHER

What Have You Been up To?

HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT ALL OF THIS?

WHAT INDOOR ACTIVITIES HAVE YOU ENJOYED DOING? TICK ALL THAT APPLY.

GLUE A PICTURE HERE

OF ONE OF YOUR

INDOOR ACTIVITIES

GO FOR WALKS BASKETBALL



GLUE A PICTURE HERE

OF ONE OF YOUR

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

WHAT OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES HAVE YOU ENJOYED DOING? TICK ALL THAT APPLY.

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FRIENDS SCHOOL HOBBIES OTHER

HAS YOUR FAMILY HAD TO CANCEL ANY EVENTS OR TRIPS?

GOOD OLD PHONE CALL

FACETIME

MESSENGER

WHATSAPP

ZOOM

TALKING FROM 6 FEET AWAY

HAVE YOU CELEBRATED ANY SPECIAL DAYS DURING THIS TIME?LIST THEM HERE (E.G. BIRTHDAYS, HOLIDAYS).

Stuck/Safe at Home

HAVE YOU LEARNED A NEW SKILL WHILE STUCK AT HOME?

WHAT'S BEEN YOUR FAVORITE SPOT IN THE HOUSE TO HANG OUT?

WHO HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING IN

TOUCH WITH?

HOW HAVE YOU KEPT IN TOUCH? TICK ALL THAT APPLY.

WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST WHILE STUCK AT HOME? TICK ALL THAT APPLY.

IF SO, WHAT & WHERE?



WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED TO DO WHEN THIS IS OVER?

PLACES TO GO PEOPLE TO SEE

THINGS TO DO FOOD TO EAT



Life after COVID-19

Better Days are Coming

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Have your parents write down their thoughts, memories, events etc. for you from this time. E.g.,

what will they remember most, what items sell out at the grocery store, how did the neighborhood

change, who was the president and governor at the time, how strict was the "safe at home" order,

did they buy face masks?



Notes from My Parents

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Print out and add as many of these creative pages to your diary as you want. You can

glue anything here from your time at home, e.g., more pictures, your artwork, or

newspaper articles.



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