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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...
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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...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Flowering Plants

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about flowering plants in the science of biology including their life-cycle, structures of a flower, fruit, seeds, and pollination.
eBook
Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Sexual Reproduction in Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, from retired Harvard professor John W. Kimball, provides a detailed but understandable explanation of sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Includes informative, well labelled illustrations.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the parts of a flowering plant are and how the plant develops from a seed. Discusses fertilization through pollination, the formation of the endosperm and fruit, and the repetition of the life cycle all over again when the...
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Four Parts of a Green Plant and Their Functions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson plan using an apple, tea bag, onion, and celery to teach plant parts and their function.

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