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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.

 

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