Transcript Plants And Seeds

Plants And Seeds
1) A seed is a plant
ready to grow.
2) All seeds grow into
the same kind of
plant that made them.
3) Seeds rest inside a
snug coat waiting to
burst out.
Plants And Seeds
1) Seeds are different
shapes, sizes, and colors.
2) Many plants grow
flowers.
3) Flowers are where most
seeds begin.
4) Seeds need water, air,
and warmth to grow.
Plants And Seeds Germinating
1) Water soaks into the hard
coats, and the seeds
swell up and the coat
splits open.
2) Tiny roots start to grow
downwards.
3) Tiny shoots start to grow
upwards.
4) The seeds are
germinating.
Seeds need water, air, light and
good soil.
1) When seeds germinate
they need food.
2) Seeds get their food
from water and the soil.
3) Germinating seeds need
warmth, light, and they
need air to breathe.
4) They breathe through
their leaves and their
roots.
Minerals, Water, Pollination
1) The seeds take in
minerals and water
through the roots.
2) The stem carries the
minerals and water to the
leaves.
3) Next Pollination occurs
in different ways. The
wind, bees, insects, and
birds help to pollinate
plants.
Pollination
1) Before a seed can grow,
a grain of pollen from
the stamen must land on
the stigma at the top of
the pistil of a flower like
itself. That’s pollination.
2) If a pollen grain from a
flower lands on the pistil
of the same kind of
flower, it grows a long
tube through the pistil
into an ovule. This is the
beginning of a seed.
Seeds grow inside the flower
1) Seeds grow inside
the flower even as
the flower begins to
die.
2) As the seeds become
bigger, a fruit or pod
grows around them.
3) The fruit or pod
protects the seed.
How some seeds travel
1) When the fruit or pod
ripens, it breaks open.
2) The seeds are ready to
become new plants.
3) Some seeds fall to the
ground, birds eat berries
and seeds fall out, and
other seeds fall into
streams, ponds, rivers
and oceans.
Animals help scatter seeds
1) Animals help to
scatter seeds too.
2) They hide acorns and
nuts in the ground.
3) Some seeds have
hooks that stick to
the fur of animals or
people’s clothes later
to drop onto the
ground.
Seeds are planted for flowers,
vegetables and fruit
1) Seeds are planted for
flowers, vegetable
and fruit gardens.
2) Seeds can come in
small envelopes or
boxes from the store.
3) People can save
some seeds from the
year before that they
were able to collect.
We need plants and seeds for our
life.
1) We need plants. They
make clean air for us
to breathe.
2) We need to be kind
to plants and take
good care of them.
3) We could not live
without them!