Level:upper
Procedure: Students reflect on questions. The video (14 min) contains the insights of Dr. Koechlin in relation to plant dignity.
Vocabulary:
You are going to hear the following words. You may want to know what they mean.Names of insects: Carterpillar, parasitic wasp, spider mites, winter moth.
Flowers/plants: marigolds , birch tree.
Tits = Small bird (tit bird)
Scent = smell (pay attention to pronunciation)
Mycorrhiza =A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus
Before watching
Reflect on these questions
Can plants communicate?
Can a scent/odor smell nasty to a plant?
Can plants network?
Do you know what the 5 human senses? Sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste
Do plants know about their past?
Watch the video to compare your answers and Dr. Koechlin’s
Questions:
What does Dr. Florianne Koechlin call a feat of communication?
What are some of the actions that plants can carry out?
Why is mycorrhiza important?
What is the proof that a tomato plant can learn from experience?
What is a plant, according to the speaker Dr. Koechlin?
What are the consequences of seeing the plant as a SHE?
Why does the comparison between animal and plant make sense?
What did the committee that discussed plant dignity agree on?
What prize did the committee receive for their research? 9.What examples are given on plant mistreatment?
To finish: Has this talk changed the way you see plants? Justify your answer
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Can plants communicate?
Can a scent/odor smell nasty to a plant?
Can plants network?
Do you know what the 5 human senses? Sight, touch, smell, hearing, taste
Do plants know about their past?
Watch the video to compare your answers and Dr. Koechlin’s
Questions:
What does Dr. Florianne Koechlin call a feat of communication?
What are some of the actions that plants can carry out?
Why is mycorrhiza important?
What is the proof that a tomato plant can learn from experience?
What is a plant, according to the speaker Dr. Koechlin?
What are the consequences of seeing the plant as a SHE?
Why does the comparison between animal and plant make sense?
What did the committee that discussed plant dignity agree on?
11 comments:
This video was cool. I do believe that is important to appreciate every living creature. For me, this video didn't change my view on plants, but it thought it was so interesting to learn about plant comunication. Plants are so cool, sometimes it amazes me how the enviroment, the music and the way that you treat them can change the growth of these.
My view on how I see plants I think it's the same, the least I can say is that it has evolved. Before watching the video I really liked plants, but now I know more about them. I had the knowledge that plants communicate through the roots. Thanks to the talk, I have learned they also do it via fragrances and that plants have 20 more senses that a human has, electromagnetic for example. Moreover, they can learn through experiences. Overall, it was an interesting topic. - CB
I love ted talks, this one was quite interesting, I've heard many times that all living beings feel, and grown on their own way, it is interesting for me to see how we can even find music to grow plants, I think they don't necessarily hear, but they can feel, so probably we need to take more care of plants, even when we take a leaf off a plant.
I grew up in Vallvidrera, surrounded by nature, I was raised to respect nature and to ask for permission before picking up a flower. I've always been a firm believer in mother nature and her strength, so whilst I did learn lots of things from this video, it doesn't not change the way I view plants.
-Lola McIver
This was an interesting TED talk. While it's truth that I already knew most of the things that Dr. Koechlin explained I still think that, for someone who hasn't read or heard about this topic, it may be a really interesting thing to learn about. As for me, since I was little, I was told that, like humans and animals, plant were sentient living beings too, and that I had to to treat them as an equal. Because of that, I never understood people that treated plants as garbage or that had fun peeling off the trees. So, to see that there's researchers trying to give dignity to plants, flowers, trees, etc, makes me really happy. So yeah, my point of view didn't change, but I hope that, somewhere, someone's point of view has changed thanks to this TED talk.
This has been a very interesting talk, to say the least. As part of a project I did in the past I was inclined to look into the world of Botanical Science to learn a thing or two about how plants lived and existed, but Dr.Koechlin's talk taught me, not just much more than my initial research, but also taught me more interesting topics that I would've never imagined. While I already knew plants used mostly scents and toxines to defend themselves and warn others of potential threats I never knew that they did so accordingly to their experience; for some reason it never crossed my mind that plants may also use experience as an evolutionary defense mechanism. The WWW (Wood Wide Network) was also a very intriguing topic to learn about, for everyone knows about tree roots and their personal use of gathering nutrients, but I never thought other trees and ever fungi could have such an intricate way of comunicating and to benefit eachother, it truly caught me off guard.
Has this talk changed my view on plants? Yes, very much so, all for the fact I had always seen plants as these passive organisms who did nothing besides feed and live. Now that I know these other pieces of information I can't stop but to think of all the times I stood ontop of a root communication system without me ever knowing, as well as if the conditions of my houseplants are adequate enough for them to live a good life.
I also consider what Dr.Koechlin said about plants' dignity, since most people I've ever met shared this view of plants being these passive, automated machines without even batting an eye to their actual ways of living. I do think that if this information was fully public many more people would consider our treatments of these organisms, how we grow them and manipulate them to our will, not thinking of the nature and main functionality of plants (particularly having the use of insecticides and anti-seedgrowth gene manipulators in mind).
I only hope this becomes common knowledge and it ends up helping the agricultural industry maintain the dignity of plant life as well as our own.
Jana Marcó
Fascinating! I learned so much stuff I didn’t know about plantas such as how do tomatoes identify what animal he is being eaten by, by eating their saliva, how they have twenty more senses that us humans and how they learn from experiences. I still think that plants are very important and interesting and there’s so much things that we don’t know about them. I don’t agree with Dr. Florieanne Koechlin in some ways like for example when she says plants can hear but I do agree with the rest. This didn’t change my perspective but I did learn some new stuff.
Even though this TED talk gives an insight on a topic I am usually not too into, I have found it interesting. Part of the information was not surprising to hear, because I had already heard that every living organism interacts with its sorroundings, even if that process is hardly ever perceived by the human eye.
I was already aware of the way fungi communicates and the net it forms underground, therefore it was interesting to learn that plants interact in a similar way.
I believe that further information should be taught at school surrounding this particular topic. This would educate people on something as important as taking care of nature and perceiving it as a living creature. Thus, it would create a feeling of empathy for other organisms that, despite not being animals, are full of life as well.
After all, human activity affects deeply on the planet, and we should learn to appreciate the place we live in and its creatures.
Luisa Piattelli
I knew mushrooms could communicate with each other but never wondered if plants could; I find it interesting that tomatoes can warn others about potential danger since I’ve never thought of plants as particularly empathetic beings. I don’t know much about plants but this video helped me realize they have a much more complex communication system than I thought
Personally I believe that this Ted talk has been very engaging and informative, it has definitely strengthened my bond with plants.
I have grown partially in the Basque Country, as a result I have always been taught to appreciate and respect nature and it’s weather. However this video has changed the point of view from where I appreciate plants, from now on apart from valuing the beauty of certain plants I also will take into account their capacity to communicate, which I find to be particularly appealing and interesting.
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