Seed Travel

After listening to a book about seeds, individuals locate, collect, and illustrate five seeds from the school garden and determine how the seed traveled to the plot.

Students explore seed dispersal by designing their own wind dispersed seed structure. Using one piece of paper and a box fan, they construct a seed dispersal structure, record the distance their seed travels, and answer discussion...

Here is a fabulous, cross-curicular lesson on seeds. Elements of science, writing, math, agricultural practices, and art are all brought into this incredibly thorough plan. Additionally, a fun whole-class game is presented, and there is...

This fascinating science worksheet has students determine how seeds travel. They see that seeds travel through the environment as "floaters," "fliers," and "hitchhikers." Students collect seeds, and tape them to a chart embedded in the...

For this seeds worksheet, students collect 6 different types of seeds and test them to see how they travel. Students list the ways their seeds traveled, name the plants and then draw a picture of each seed. Students answer 1 short answer...

This PowerPoint provides information that answers the question, "How do seeds travel?" The slides feature facts about flying, popping, sticking, and carrying as modes of transportation for seeds. Not the greatest PowerPoint, but it does...

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 maple...

A PowerPoint presentation on how humans travel introduces this lesson on how seeds travel. Next, your class listens to a series of stories and poems that match up with the ways that seeds travel: by hitchhiking, traveling with the wind,...

Third graders discover how seeds travel. In this plant seed instructional activity, 3rd graders conduct an experiment with seeds collected from a nature trail. Students record and compare data on different seeds.

Students explore how seeds travel. In this seed disbursement lesson, students head outside in their bare socks. Students walk around then before going inside they take the socks off and examine what their socks picked up. As a class the...