Seeds, Plants and a School Orchard

Seeds – Watch this fascinating video of a bean seed sprouting over a 25 day period.

Experiments – Check this out Easy plant science experiments for the classroom

Plants – How plants grow. This is an interesting video where you will learn about the classification of plants (moss, ferns, conifers and flowering) and parts of a plant.

Follow up with this video What is a plant? It highlights the way plants need sunlight, water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide to grow and uses photosynthesis to create sugars and oxygen. You will be intrigued watching the characteristics of some plants, like the venus fly trap, for catching prey.

School gardens and orchards – Planting an orchard at school. It doesn’t get much better than this when you have Gardening Australia’s expert Josh Byrne lending a helping hand.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               There are lots of useful resources like this on the Education ABC website.