Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):

• Overview of Kingdom Plantae
• Plant Diversity and Evolution (includes reproduction/life cycles)
• Plant Structure
• Plant Nutrition and Transport
• Plant Transport (Xylem & Phloem)
• Stomata
• Plant Control

Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):

• The Plant Kingdom: An Introduction (students read about the mutations that occurred in plants for the successful transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial existence and that classification is based on these adaptive structures)
• Life Cycles of Animals vs. Plants (animated activity in which sexual reproduction in animals is contrasted with the alternation of generation life cycle of plants)
• The Life Cycle of Plants (students follow the activities on the page to learn about seed growth, plant identification, and more)
• Flowers (in this well-illustrated activity, students examine basic floral anatomy as the reproductive organ of the angiosperm)
• Fruit (students read how fruits are classified according to their texture and how they developed from their floral anatomy)
• Leaves (students read a general description of the function and structure of leaves and examine drawings and microscopic views; a matching exercise completes the activity)
• Transport: Sugars (students read about how sugar is transported in plants)
• Transport: Water (students click through animations examining water movement in plants)
• Plant Evolution (online reading about the early evolution of plants)
• Plant Evolution (online reading about the evolution of seed plants)
• How Plants Breathe (online reading about respiration in plants)
• Animated Lessons about Plants
• Virtual Plant Dissection (online ‘dissection’ of a flower part by part, with an emphasis on pollination and reproduction)

Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):

• Sporic Life Cycle of Early Plants (timed labeling game of the sporic life cycle)
• Phloem & Xylem (students put together the ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of parts before the water and sap run out)
• Seed Dispersal (students use this game to see how plants evolved seeds dispersed by the wind, and compare how easily different designs of seed can colonize a landscape)
• Plant Defenses (students learn how plants evolve to suit their surroundings. In this game, students choose passive and aggressive defense mechanisms for their ‘plant’, and see how well they defend it against a variety of dangers, from lawnmowers to viruses)
• Pollen Racer (students can choose 1 or 2 player and race to get pollen to the eggs)
• Designing a Plant (students learn that flowering plants have evolved to attract specific kinds of pollinators. In this game, students create their own flower and test how successful their design is at attracting pollinators)
• The Great Plant Escape: The Case of Plantenstein (students follow the facts of the case to help Detective LePlant solve the mystery of plant life)