Seed Travel

Students understand how they can incorporate dietary guidelines in their daily life.  In this investigative lesson students set dietary goals and incorporate an activity to learn how to create a new seed variety while studying dispersal...

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.

Engineering challenges are not just man-made ... nature has its own set of them. A hands-on STEM activity has groups designing a seed dispersal system. Each group can only use one sheet of paper — a tough task!

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...

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...

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...

Fourth graders examine how seeds are dispersed. In this seed dispersal lesson, 4th graders view a slide show of how seeds are dispersed. Students then do an experiment with a dandelion and a fan.

Ever wonder how seeds get planted in the wild? How do they move around the land? Here you will learn how seeds get dispersed through wind, water, animals, and explosions. Your class will work in pairs to research the different ways of...

Students explore how seeds travel. In this seed disbursement lesson plan, 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...

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,...