Handout
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Biology of Plants: Seed Dispersal

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about methods of seed dispersal. Includes videos, photos, and lesson plans.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Sock Walk (Seed Dispersal)

For Teachers 1st
Activity helps with the understanding of seed dispersal.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Seeds and Seed Dispersal

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Plants seem to grow wherever they can. How? Plants can't move on their own. So how does a plant start growing in a new area? Learn more about seeds and seed...
Lesson Plan
Other

Science and Kids Activities: Pollination and Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn how plants depend on animals to disperse their seeds. Students will learn about ways that animals can disperse seeds. They will design their own model and compare it to the real action of plants and animals. In the...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Seed Racer

For Students 1st - 5th
This PBS Kids activity is an extension of a Plum Landing episode featuring seed dispersal. Students will play a game in which they collect seeds. Students will collect different types of seeds, and then students will learn facts...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: California: What Is Seed Dispersal?

For Students 4th - 6th
Nikki is learning about plant seed dispersal methods. Join in and learn how this is important to plant reproduction.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 7.9 Seed Dispersal

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how plants disperse their seeds for successful reproduction.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: The Great Plant Escape Parts of a Seed

For Students 2nd - 6th
Help Detective Le Plant discover how a seed grows into a plant. Students will learn to describe a seed's structure and what's needed for seed growth.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Gone With the Wind: An Experiment on Seed and Fruit Dispersal

For Students 3rd - 5th
If you have ever made a wish and blown the fluff of a dandelion, you have witnessed how some plants are adapted to spreading their seeds using the wind. The tiny, furry parachute allows the seeds to be picked up by the wind and to be...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Many Seeds Do Different Types of Fruit Produce?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you like your strawberry jelly with or without the seeds? Are you glad to have a seed-free watermelon, or do you enjoy spitting the seeds into the garden? You might not like to find seeds in your fruit, but fruit is nature's way of...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:a Model of Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Investigate propagation systems in plants, and explain the ways some animals disperse seeds through their digestive processes. Role-play and map the daily travels of one seed-bearing animal to explore the migration of seeds.
Lesson Plan
Science & Plants for Schools

Science & Plants for Schools: Pollination, Fertilization, Fruits [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Great PDF to teach students about plant reproduction and life cycle. There are many teacher printables.
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: The Ingenious Stork's Bill Seed Plants Itself!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the Erodium cicutarium, a plant also known as the stork's bill, that has a unique way of dispersing its own seeds. Includes video.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Third Grade Science: Life Science: Plant Reproduction and Life Cycles

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read about the processes of sexual reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilization (seed production), seed dispersal, and germination.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: Plant Reproduction

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at the processes of sexual reproduction in flowering plants, including pollination, fertilization (seed production), seed dispersal, and germination.
Handout
Other

Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science

For Students 9th - 10th
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
Handout
Other

Illinois State Museum: Prairie Ecosystems: Plant Adaptations

For Students 4th - 9th
How are prairie plants able to survive fires? This site will explain how seed germination takes place after a prairie fire.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Plant Reproduction Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Brush up on the parts of plants before taking this interactive quiz. Check the box for each correct answer, and then see your final score.
Graphic
Curated OER

Bobtown Hill Prairie Nature Preserve

For Students 9th - 10th
How are prairie plants able to survive fires? This site will explain how seed germination takes place after a prairie fire.
Handout
Other

42 Explore: Trees and Forests

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a site with links covering multiple areas of tree and plant study. Great illustrations and information.