Seed Dispersal with Wind, Sea, and Animals!
Seed Dispersal is the movement or transportation of seeds away from the Parent Plant.
What does that mean? Let's start by taking a closer look at all the ways seeds can travel: wind, sea, and animal! For example, coconuts are the seeds of Palm Trees, and as they drop they might get swept up by the ocean. Since coconuts can easily float, they will float till they are washed up on shore and will start to possibly grow where they land! Other seeds are built like gliders with pods surrounding them that help pick up the wind and help them ride the wind to get far away! Last, when animals eat seeds (by eating the fruit of a tree/plant, for example), they typically travel away and by the time they need to "do their business" they are dispersing the seed away from the parent plant! We are fascinated with learning about how nature has created so many ways to thrive and survive!
Next class we will get to create our own Spinner Seed Pod and Rotocopter Seed Pod and have a competition with who can get their seed to travel the farthest. This will help give us a fun activity in which we get to control how a Seed is Dispersed, and we can explore how to be the most effective in our Seed Dispersal!
Keep Exploring,
Ms. Gillis
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