Hands on Science:
NEW
PLANTS --- CIMC Resources
#1 Brassica Seeds:
What do seeds do?
582 WHA
1 videocassette, 11 minutes.
Shows
how a seed grows into a plant capable of supplying its own food and producing
its own seed. Gives examples of corn, bean, maple tree, foxtail,
and milkweed seeds.
Debbie Greenthumb
581 DEB
4 VHS videocassettes 45 minutes, 25 dittos, 1 teachers guide.
Titles: Plants Can Be Found Everywhere; Where Plants Come From; How Plants Grow;
Importance of Plants to our World.
Magic School Bus: Goes to Seed
580 MAG
1 VHS videocassette 30 minutes.
Ms.
Frizzle's class explores gardens, plants, and insects.
All about plant pollination: fruit, flowers, and seeds
581 ALL
1 videocassette, 24 minutes + 1 teacher's guide.
An
introduction to the processes of pollination and reproduction in plants,
including the development of flowers, fruit and seeds.
Pumpkin Circle
580 PUM
1 VHS videocassette 20 minutes, 1 teachers guide. Grade Level: K - 3
Examines the life cycle of a pumpkin patch over three seasons.
Bean Germination Biosmount
630 BEA
1 bean model.
Model shows three stages of lima and broad bean plant germination.
Corn Germination Biosmount
630 COR
1 corn model
Model shows seven stages of corn germination.
Corn Life Cycle
630 COR
1 corn life cycle model
Displays seed, seedling, small tassel. Immature ear is dissected to show silks
and fruit, and ear sectioned to show damage done by earworm.
Dicot Seed
582 DIC
1 dicot seed model, labeled.
Exhibits a large buckeye dicot seed that has been germinated and opened to show structures.
Diversity of Plants: Seed Producers
580 DIV
12 study prints.
Titles: Living Fossil; A Tree Study; A Strange Plant; Pampas Grass; An Early Bloomer; A Poisonous Plant; A Water Plant; A Cactus Twin; An Air Plant; An Insect Eater; A Plant Parasite; Living Stones.
Flower Anatomy
582 FLO
1 flower anatomy model.
Displays two blooms (lily and amaryllis) dissected to show female and male
structures. Labeled.
Primary Science: Plants
580 PRI
1 cassette, 1 paperback book, 1 teachers guide
Shows the life cycle of plants and the processes necessary for seeds to grow. Discusses methods for identifying an unknown plant.
Seed Fruits
582 SEE
1 seed fruits model
Displays twelve different types of fruit. Labeled. Titles: Sunflower; Maple; Pecan; Wheat; Apple; Pea; Cherry; Lily; Mulberry; Huckleberry; Blackberry.
How seeds get here and there
582 HOW
1 videocassette, 16 minutes.
How did that weed get in the garden? Why do dandelions pop up in different places? How do plants spread from one place to another, even where there are miles of water in between? Seeds can't walk, or swim, or fly, or can they? Come with us on a fascinating field trip as our eight-year-olds discover how seeds move. One finds that even he carries a few hitchhikers. Another flies through the air on a dandelion seed. And they all take part in the "great seed chase".
#2 Grain and Grass Seeds:
Reading Rainbow: Bread Is For Eating
E REA
1 VHS videocassette 30 minutes, 5 hardback books, 1 teachers guide.
Discusses the history of bread. Examines what goes into making a loaf of bread, from seed to supermarket. Book titles: Bread, Bread, Bread; Bread Is For Eating; La Tortilleria; The Tortilla Factory; Walter the Baker.
Grains
630 GRA
1 grains model, labeled.
Displays mature heads on sections of rice, wheat, rye, oats, corn, buckwheat, milo, and millet. Includes individual seeds.
Bread, from wheat to table
641.8 BRE
1 videocassette, 12 minutes.
Explores the wheat-growing process from wheat berry to harvest. The process continues from field to mill to industrial bakery. At the bakery, viewers are invited to participate in the process of bread making.
Bread comes to life: a garden of wheat and a loaf to eat
641.8 BRE
1 DVD, 22 minutes.
Narrated by Lily Tomlin, this award-winning program follows the process of
bread-making from the farm to the bakery using live-action footage, time-lapse
photography and animated sequences. Narrated in verse with music by George
Winston, the program tells the story of the sowing, growing, reaping, threshing,
milling, mixing, shaping, kneading, rising, baking and breaking of daily bread.
#3 Stems:
#4 Bulbs and Roots:
Leaf and Root Systems Models
581 LEA
4 models.
Titles: Root System; Leaf Morphology; Leaves; Leaf Skeleton.
Learn About Life Science: Plants
580 LEA
8 hybrid CD-ROMs, 1 teacher guide notebook
Shows the parts of a plant, and where and how they grow.