Hey y'all, I'm Paula Deen. Today we're going to turn sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into glucose!

You Will Need:

~A plant

~Sunlight

~Water

~Carbon Dioxide

First, we're going to start with the light dependent reaction.

For this step you're going to need some thylakoids. You can find these in your local chloroplasts. Thylakoids contain the light absorbing pigment chlorophyll in photosystems

1. Add sunlight and water to photosystem number 2

2. Use energy from sunlight to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen

3. Send your oxygen out through the stoma; you don't need it anymore. Set the hydrogen aside for later

4. Send your excited electrons through the electron transport chain

5. Set your newly created ATP and hydrogen aside for later use

6. Send your excited electron through to the next photosystem, photosystem 1

7. Add sunlight to photosystem 1

8. Send your excited electron through the electron transport chain

9. Combine your hydrogen and NADP to form NADPH