Learning Games Lab
Unavailability of Water in Saline Soils
Viewers of a short video learn about salt and water molecules and how their characteristics determine how they interact with each other. Then, they watch a simulation of how the interaction limits the uptake of water in plant roots and...
Learning Games Lab
The Olsen Test for Phosphorus
A short video teaches viewers about the Olsen Test, a soil test specific for plants grown in arid regions. The soil in arid regions has a higher pH and plants require special treatment to thrive. The video provides information about the...
FuseSchool
Plant Growth: Auxins and Gibberellins
Why does a plant grow toward the sun? The video, part of a Fuse School Plants playlist, explains the chemical processes behind plant growth. It details how auxins, gibberellins, and the sun work together. From curving plant stems to...
TED-Ed
Why Do We Kiss Under Mistletoe?
Hanging mistletoe is a holiday tradition, but where did the idea of kissing under mistletoe come from? In actuality mistletoe can be found in nature throughout all four seasons, and is home and food to birds and insects. Watch a video...
Crash Course Kids
Why No Polar Pineapples
Why do certain plants only grow in specific regions of the earth? This is the focus of a video that explains how Earth's tilt affects the amount of direct and indirect sunlight certain areas receive.
Crash Course Kids
Vegetation Transformation
How do plants transform the sun's light energy into chemical energy? This is the focus of a video that explains the processes of photosynthesis.
Crash Course Kids
How to Get Resources - Picky Pineapples
How do we survive if the resources we need are not available? This is the focus of a video that explains how humans adapt and transform to get the resources they need. An investigation of how Las Vegas has adapted to using a...
Crash Course Kids
Who Needs Dirt?
How do plants get the nutrients they need? This is the focus of a video that discusses how plants use photosynthesis to survive, with or without dirt.
Crash Course Kids
Gotta Eat!
Why do we eat? We eat because we need energy, and humans need energy to grow. This is the focus of a video that explains why organisms need food to live.
Curated OER
Tree and Plant Life in the Jungle
How do new plants in tropical rainforests get enough sunlight through the tree canopy overhead? Watch young seedlings lash around and use other plants and trees as ladders to the sunlight. This time-lapse video is incredible to watch!
Curated OER
Seedling Time Lapse
A Courgette seedling pushes up through the ground and spreads its leaves before your eyes. No sound is included. Use this for your young biologists.
Curated OER
STEMbite: How Trees Grow
Go to the light! That's what trees do; they grow towards light since they need it to produce energy. This phenomenon is called phototropism. Trees also grow in response to gravity, a phenomenon known as geotropism. In this video, the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: From Seed to Flower
Watching plants grow is like watching paint dry: It happens so slowly that the changes are imperceptible from one moment to the next -- and yet the end results are dramatic. This video segment shows just how amazing plant development can...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Plant Biology: Plant Growth Hormones
Learn the different hormones plant and how plants use them for growth and development. [2:39]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Happy Flower's Guide to Plant Care
Puppets explore Clubhouse themes with fun and imagination! Happy Flower needs food, water and sunlight in order to grow and be healthy! [1:23]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Strawberry Mouse
A fun video with a mouse to show the growing process of a plan step-by-step. [1:07]
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion: Photomorphogenesis
Movies that explore how plant development is controlled by light. Observe sunflower seeds and arabidopsis seeds growth in both light and dark conditions.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion: Tropism
View time-lapse videos that show how plants respond to their environment. Observe how phototropism and gravitropism result from differential growth in plants.
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion: Vegetative Growth
See the growth processes that happen during the vegetative phase of plant development. Observe the period of growth between germination and flowering cycle in several different plants.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Animals and Plants: Planting Project
Watch a group of children plant tomatoes and sunflowers so that they can see them grow. [1:27]
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Animals and Plants: Experimenting With Seeds
Children grow plants from seeds and learn what seeds need to grow. [1:26]