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Activity 3 - The Seed and the Log
Activity 3 - TEACHER'S PAGE
There are lots of possible questions about plants that we
could explore together. Some of you wondered about how trees get so big. How do they get their food to
grow so big? How can a tiny pine tree seed grow into a huge tree with a large trunk and many branches?
How does it grow those rings? Trees must use food to grow like that. But how does the tree get its
food?
Seeds and Tree Trunks
Look at some tree seeds and at a piece of a tree trunk.
How does such a tiny seed grow into a huge tree with a trunk and branches and needles (or leaves) and
many roots?
What are YOUR ideas (or hypotheses) about how a TINY seed
can change into a HUGE tree? Where does all the stuff in the tree trunk come from?
Talk with your partner or group about your ideas. Listen
to their ideas.
1. Then post your ideas about how a tiny seed can become
a huge tree to the teacher: (web page, list serv, e-mail
2. Draw a picture showing your ideas about how a tiny
seed can become a huge tree:
3. Tell how your ideas are different from someone else in
your group?
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