Plants

A guerilla gardener in South Central LA - Ron Finley Ted Talk

Flowers

• Jonathan Drori - The Beautiful Tricks of Flowers video (TEDed)

• Why did plants evolve these weird and horrific flowers?

Seeds

• Jonathan Drori Ted Talk - Why we're storing billions of seeds

• BBC Planet Earth S1, E8 Jungles

• Dispersal

  • Seed adaptations - dispersal

  • BBC Earth Unplugged seed dispersal, Cylanthera explodens

• Germination

  • Time-lapse of seeds germinating

  • Theory of germination and slow-motion videos - includes enzyme activation, gravitropism, photomorphogenesis

Tropisms

• • How plants know to grow in a certain direction

  • http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/tropism/tropisms.html, another video, and another video

Non-seed reproduction

• Propagating with stem and leaf cuttings

• Propagating from cuttings

• Spider plant information

Plant parts

• Leaves

• Tree ID activity

• Plant Structure video (Bozeman Science)

Adaptations

• Pyrophpytic plants

Photosynthesis

• Song

• Photosynthesis worksheet

• TEDed video/lesson on photosynthesis and respiration

Movement of water and nutrients in the plant

• Animation of Vascular Cambium

• Requirements for plants - Idiocracy clip - Brawndo's got what plants crave

• TEDed video/lesson on how plants tell time

• Plant Nutrition and Transport video (Bozeman science)

Importance of Plants

The tree atlas

Ecological Succession video

Crop Rotation video

Companion planting video

10 most fascinating trees