Janzen B.

Rivera
7-Gratitude
Module 4-A
Activity 1: Pair Me!
Directions: Match the following types of vegetative propagation in flowering plants in
column A with its description in column B. Write your answer in your science activity
notebook.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1.Tip layering A. A very common method by
which portions of stems are
removed and transferred to a
loose soil.
2.Leaf reproduction B. A method that stimulates the
growth of roots on stem
3.Stem cutting C. The splicing together of two stems
4.Grafting D. Plants that develop new plants
along the margins of their leaves.
5.Layering E. Certain plants reproduce by
allowing their aerial stems to arch
downward so that their tips touch
the ground.
Activity 2. Vegetative Propagation in Plants

Directions: Read the story.

Potato and Friends

Narrator: In the farm, Potato is waiting so long to her friend Strawberry.

Potato: What happen to her?
Narrator: After ten minutes, Strawberry was grasping her breath going to
Potato’s place.
Strawberry: I’m sorry Potato I’m late. My cousins and I are playing in our house,
and they are here to join us.
Potato: OH! That’s good.
Strawberry: Yeah! And it will be good if we are many. By the way, here are my
cousins Onion, Gladiolus, and Ginger.
Potato Hi! Good to see you. Ok, let’s go to my house, I guess we need to eat
first before we harvest. Let’s go!
Narrator: After eating. They decided to play first before they go back to the farm.
They play spin in a bottle.
Onion: You’re a good cook Potato. The food is so delicious.
Potato: Really! Thank you. Ok, let’s start the game. So, Potato start spinning
the bottle. If the mouth of the bottle point to you, you will tell about your
secret or unique characteristics. Agree?
Narrator: Everyone said yes. And the game starts.
Potato: Oh! So lucky I am the first. Hmmmm…. well, I’m a tuber, a specialized
stem, usually short and thickened and typically grow below the soil. Most
tubers bear minute scale leaves, each with a bud that has the potential
for developing into a new plant. That’s it. Ok, let’s continue. I will spin
now.
Ginger: Oh! Lucky me. Well, I am a type of plant stem situated either at the soil
surface or underground that contains nodes from which roots and shoots
originate. I am a rhizome that tends to grow horizontally instead of
vertically. Rhizomes grow under the soil and new growth may
 occasionally sprout at different angles. Because it is found under the
ground, a common misconception to me is I am part of the root.
However, I am actually a stem that grows beneath the surface of the
ground. Ok, my turn to spin. Who’s next?
Gladiolus: It’s me. I am perennial flowering plants and I am a corm. Corm is a
short vertical, fleshy, underground stem that acts as a food storage
structure in certain seed plants. I reproduce by means of small corms
called cornels, and it will develop at the base of the corm grow into
mature corms over a period of a few years. That’s all. My time to spin.
Here we go!
Onion: Yes! It’s me Hmm…I am a bulb, my stem is shortened down to a disc,
often
called the basal plate from which roots arise around the edge. My
spin.
Strawberry: Oh! My turn. I’m pretty, just kidding she said. Well, my family called
me stolon or runner. I grow at the soil surface or just below ground
that form adventitious roots at the nodes, and new plants from the
buds.
Potato: Maybe we can stop the game. We can continue this later. Let’s go
back to farm and start harvesting the fruits and vegetables. And I think
you will enjoy harvesting fruits and vegetables in our farm.
Strawberry: Definitely. Let’s go my dear cousins.
Narrator: After cleaning. They go to the farm. All of them have fun harvesting
the whole afternoon.
 Based on the story, identify what type of vegetative propagation is inside the box.
Write your answer in your science activity notebook.

1. 2.

3. 4. 5.

Q1. Based on the story “Potato and Friends”, what type of reproduction is being
exhibited by the organisms? How do you define it?
____________________________________________________________

Q2. What do you think is the reason why they have to reproduce?
___________________________________________________________

Wow! Amazing. You have done it well! And now, let’s learn more about Asexual
Reproduction.
 What is It

Asexual Reproduction is the creation of new organism from a single parent

without combination of gametes. Therefore, the parent and the resulting offspring have
the same genes and this is the reason why they have the same traits. In other words,
the parent and the offspring are identical to each other. Asexual reproduction requires
less energy since no mating is needed but can produce many offspring at one
reproductive cycle.

Below is a table showing the different modes of asexual reproduction, its description
and examples.

Modes of Asexual Description Example

Reproduction
1. Spore formation When a parent plant produces hundreds of Bread mold, fern
tiny spores which can grow into new plants.
When the spore case opens, the tiny
spores are released and may be carried by
the wind or water. Once the spore lands on
favorable environment, it develops into a
new organism.
2.Budding when an outgrowth called a bud grows and Coral, hydra,
develops from the parent animal and would
yeast
eventually separate to become a new
individual.
3.Fission a mode of asexual reproduction wherein Sea anemone,
two individuals will form as the parent bacteria, amoeba
divides in half.
4.Fragmentation new organism grows from a fragment of Planaria,
the parent. Each of these fragments
cnidarians
develop into matured, fully grown
individuals.
(Adapted from M.F.Fabunan. Cross
Specialization Training of Grades 7-10
 Science Teachers.)

5.Regeneration when an organism replaces or repair a lost Starfish, lobster

damaged part of the body

Vegetative Propagation is a mode of asexual reproduction in plants where a new plant

can form from the root, stem or leaf of an already existing plant.

The table shows the different types of Vegetative Propagation in Plants

Types Description Example

1.Runners/ Stolon an aboveground stem that grows Bermuda grass,
horizontally along the surface when the strawberry
stem touches the ground. Buds from the
stem form roots and leaves, and a new
plant develops.
2.Rhizomes an underground stem that grows Ginger
horizontally along the surface; shoots from
buds at nodes of the stem develop into a
new plant.
3.Tubers are enlarged and thickened underground Potato
stem with buds or eye.
4.Bulb have a short, underground stem and thick, Onion
fleshy leaves that are colorless. A bulb can
reproduce several smaller bulbs, each of
which can grow into a new plant.
5.Corm is an enlarged, short, underground stem Gabi
that stores food. Corms resemble bulbs but
do not have thick, fleshy leaves. New corms
develop from the stem of an old corm to
produce new plants.
SELF-CHECK: Why do we use vegetative propagation in plants?

Janzen B. Rivera
7-Gratitude
 Module 4-B
Activity 3: Investigate Me!
This time, you will now apply the knowledge that you have learned from your
previous readings. Using your science activity notebook, answer the following
questions.

Directions: You may look for a real gumamela flower in your area (if you have) or you
may examine the entire flower and the part of its stem found in the module (Figure 1).

Q1. Describe how the flower is attached to the stem.

Q2. What are the reproductive structures of the flower? Describe them.
Q3. What do you think is the adaptive value of the sticky characteristics of the stigma in
reproduction?
Activity 5: Easy Essay

Directions: In five sentences only, make your stand on the situation below. Write your
answer in your science activity notebook.
Jellyfish reproduction involves both sexual and asexual reproduction. Sexual
reproduction occurs in the adult stage where males release sperm and females release
the egg. When sperm and egg combine, it will form a small larva called planula. These
planulae will attach to rocks and become polyps. During this stage, they can reproduce
asexually by elongating then-budding off to produce many young jellyfish. Why do you
think many species of jellyfish produce offspring extraordinarily quickly?

Rubric for Scoring:

Basis 3 2 1
Ideas Ideas presented Ideas presented is Ideas has no
is clear and not well defined clear sense of
focused purpose
Organization Information is Information is Information is
relevant and in somewhat relevant not relevant
 logical order
Word choice The choice of The choice of The choice of
words is accurate words is not so words is not
accurate accurate

Spelling and Spelling and Only few errors in Many errors in

punctuation punctuations are spelling and spelling and
all correct punctuation is punctuations are
observed observed

Janzen B. Rivera
7-Gratitude
Module 7
Lesson 5.1
 What’s New

Figure 1. Conditions of the ecosystem

Activity 2. Let Me Know

Directions: From the pictures in Figure 1, write at least five (5) observations in your
science activity notebook. (No. 1 is done for you.)

1. Smoke is coming out of the chimneys of a factory.

2. ________________________________________
3. ________________________________________
4. ________________________________________
5. ________________________________________
Janzen B. Rivera
7-Gratitude
Directions: Put letter ( A ) if the following components of an ecosystem is abiotic and
letter ( B ) if it is biotic. Write your answer in your science activity notebook.

1. rain _______________
2. grasses _______________
3. alcohol _______________
4. oxygen _______________
5. sunlight _______________
6. mask _______________
7. soil _______________
8. bird _______________
9. face shield _______________
10. stones _______________