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What Is Seed Dispersal? | Botanical Relationships
To grow the next generation, plants need to scatter their seeds. Wind, water, insects, and animals can help this process and spread a plant’s seeds far and wide.
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Questions and Prompts for Educators
Check for Understanding
- What are seeds?
- How do plants spread their seeds?
Take It Further
- There are many ways seeds are dispersed. Which seed dispersal method do you think works best? Why?
Act it out. Move your body as a dandelion seed would move in the wind. Act out how a dandelion seed would disperse in the wind. Now, try acting out how a wisteria plant would disperse its seeds by shooting them out in different directions.
Create
- Create a zine that showcases the various ways seeds can travel and be dispersed.
- Choose a seed dispersal method. Use everyday materials to demonstrate how the seeds travel.
Make a Personal Connection
- Go on a seed walk at school. Look for any seeds that have been dispersed. How do you think these seeds were dispersed? What makes you think that?
Next Generation Science Standards: Disciplinary Core Ideas
- LS1.A: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
How do the structures of organisms enable life’s functions?
