Amoeba Sisters
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms
Join us as we explore flower parts, pollination, and double fertilization in angiosperms. We'll also talk about the importance of pollinators, like bees, and the role they play. 00:00 Intro 1:34 What are Angiosperms? 1:48 Fruit 2:29...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The sexual deception of orchids - Anne Gaskett
Check out the fascinating ways orchids trick insects into pollinating, using sexual deception, pheromones and mimicking the shapes of other plants. -- Nearly 28,000 species of orchid grow all around the world, bearing every imaginable...
Curated Video
Plant Reproduction
Dr. Forrester explains the life cycle of a plant. She also teaches about the various ways that seeds are dispersed.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Plant Reproduction: Video Review
This engaging series of videos uses colorful animations and on-location footage to illustrate some of the amazing ways plants reproduce. The reproduction processes in bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are highlighted....
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Reproduction: Summing Up
This engaging video program uses colorful animations and on-location footage to illustrate some of the amazing ways plants reproduce. The reproduction processes in bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms are highlighted....
Professor Dave Explains
Plant Anatomy and Structure
We've learned about the types of plant cells, and the types of plant tissues, so the next step up on the hierarchy of organization is organs and organ systems. Plants have these too! The stem, the leaves, the roots, these are all...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Flowers
RJ hangs out in Zoe's garden as she explains pollination, flower anatomy, and fertilization. This cartoon-styled feature is sure to stay in your botanists' minds! Follow it with the dissection of large flowers, such as the lily.
PBS
Seasonal Science: Pine Pollen
More than 125 species of pine trees exist, and each species can live over 100 years, with some living over 1,000 years—that's a lot of pine pollen! The Seasonal Science series explains why pine trees produce pollen. The video details the...
Deep Look
The Sex Lives of Christmas Trees
Coniferous trees produce both male and female pine cones. The video explains the differences, how these trees reproduce, and why it is beneficial. It includes facts about the location, size, and age of pine trees.
Deep Look
This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower's Hidden Treasure
Some plants lock their pollen up until feeling the correct password. The video explains buzz pollination and how it differs from the pollination of other types of flowering plants. It lists multiple plants that require it and...
MinuteEarth
Who Are Flowers Trying to Seduce?
Learn the tricks plants use to attract insects and animals in their quest for pollination. A thorough video lesson describes plant adaptations that meet their reproductive needs. From bees to rodents to bats, the narrator describes how...
Crash Course
The Plants and the Bees: Plant Reproduction
This video explains the difference between gametophytes and sporophytes and uses this this information to teach the reproduction process of various vascular plants. Viewers see how ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms reproduce.
Crash Course
The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations
Plants evolved more than 400 million years ago into two types — vascular and nonvascular. Here's a video that explains the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants and then focuses on the over 24,000 types of nonvascular...
Amoeba Sisters
Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms
A colony of bees has moved into someone's home and the owners know how important bees are for pollination. Should they keep the bees? An informative video also includes a guide to plant reproduction including the male and...
Curated OER
STEMbite: Seed Dispersal
Dandelion and maple tree seeds are blown and thrown to show two methods of seed dispersal. The narrator videotapes from his vantage point, his hands visible, but never his face. He examines helicopter blades as a human imitation of...
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...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Plant Propagation via Asexual Reproduction
A video interviewing a plant geneticist who wants to understand how different kinds of plant propagation. [2:48]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: The Beautiful 'Corpse' Flower
This web-article is about the blooming of the Titan Arum, also known as the 'corpse flower' because of its smell. Read all about the flower and see pictures of the unusual plant.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Reproductive Role of Flowers
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the critical role of flowers in seed plant reproductive biology. [4:01]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Biology: The Plants & the Bees: Plant Reproduction
Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction. Vascular plants use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot...
Indiana University
Indiana University: Plants in Motion: Seed Germination
Movies showing how corn, sunflower, and arabidopsis seeds germinate.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: The Stink of the Corpse Flower, Explained
This flower smells like rotting flesh - and it's managed to trick a large mammal into spreading its seeds around the globe. [3:41]