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Plant Disease

This collection of resources introduces 14-16 students to the world of plant disease in a lively and engaging way. They include practicals and classroom activities to get your students thinking about plants as living organisms, with their own defences against the threat of invading pathogens. 

Ideas about communicable diseases in plants are included in the updated programmes of study for Key Stage 4 science published in December 2014. These ideas will be included in GCSE Science courses from 2016 (for first assessment in summer 2018). Some of these resources were developed specifically with GCSE Science in mind, but we hope they will all prove useful to teachers covering this intriguing and important topic.

2020 is the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) which aims to raise awareness of the wider concerns related to keeping plants healthy.
SAPS have created a series of plant contexts which link to the aims of IYPH. These can be used to introduce core content across the biology curriculum, weaving plants and plant health throughout.  Click here to see the plant health resources that SAPS have developed linking to IYPH.
You can find out more about IYPH here and keep updated on twitter using #IYPH2020.

 

The Battle for Fortress Plant - poster

Plant disease detectives

The poster ‘The Never-Ending Battle for Fortress Plant’ illustrates ideas about plant defences against pathogens. It depicts the plant as a fortress which is defended against invading pathogens. The poster is accompanied by a presentation and activity sheet, which can be used as a step-by-step walk-through of the ideas in the poster.

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In this activity, students act as detectives, piecing together information from the sources provided to identify common plant diseases, including the type of pathogen causing it, ways in which the disease is spread, and how to stop the spread.

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Plant disease practials - powdery mildew

Plant disease practicals - identifying the causes of brown rot

In this practical and data analysis activity students collect samples of leaves showing samples of infection with powdery mildew; the samples can be sent for analysis as part of the Powdery Mildew Survey citizen science project.

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In this practical activity, students explore how the technique of re-infection (using infected material to infect healthy plant tissue) can help to identify the cause of a plant disease.

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Plant disease practicals - investigating violet bramble rust

How healthy are your trees?

In this practical activity, students use magnification to examine leaves showing symptoms of a common plant disease, and produce labelled drawings of the fungal spores.

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This activity is designed to get students thinking about plants as living organisms that have to survive, reproduce and defend themselves against disease. Students begin by cataloguing the health of trees in the area, and can then follow this with a statistical investigation, as suitable for your location and the time of year.

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