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Interactive3:07
Scholastic

Study Jams! Flowers

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
RJ hangs out in Zoe's garden as she explains pollination, flower anatomy, and fertilization. This cartoon-styled feature is sure to stay in your botanists' minds! Follow it with the dissection of large flowers, such as the lily. 
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Instructional Video5:03
Curated OER

Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The development of the male and female gametes in a plant is illustrated, explaining plant fertilization, pollination, and reproduction. Overall, get a complete picture of the life cycle of a flowering plant with some wonderful details...
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Instructional Video2:56
Curated OER

Plant Reproduction: Asexual Reproduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Asexual reproduction in plants occurs from bulbs, perennating organs, or even gardening techniques like cuttings. Commercial growers rely on the ability of some plants to reproduce asexually and grow roots rather than starting from...
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Instructional Video10:24
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Crash Course

The Plants and the Bees: Plant Reproduction

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
This video explains the difference between gametophytes and sporophytes and uses this this information to teach the reproduction process of various vascular plants. Viewers see how ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms reproduce. 
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Instructional Video2:15
MinuteEarth

Who Are Flowers Trying to Seduce?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Learn the tricks plants use to attract insects and animals in their quest for pollination. A thorough video lesson describes plant adaptations that meet their reproductive needs. From bees to rodents to bats, the narrator describes how...
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Instructional Video3:49
Deep Look

This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower's Hidden Treasure

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Some plants lock their pollen up until feeling the correct password. The video explains buzz pollination and how it differs from the pollination of other types of flowering plants. It lists multiple plants that require it and...
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Instructional Video8:01
Amoeba Sisters

Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms

For Students 7th - 12th
A colony of bees has moved into someone's home and the owners know how important bees are for pollination. Should they keep the bees? An informative video also includes a guide to plant reproduction including the male and female parts,...
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Instructional Video6:22
PBS

How Sex Became a Thing

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Birds, bees, flowers, trees ... and Funisia dorothea? Biology scholars journey back in time to discover more about the history of sexual reproduction. The video, one of many in a biology playlist, covers our earliest eukaryotic ancestor,...
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Instructional Video9:42
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Crash Course

The Sex Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Plants evolved more than 400 million years ago into two types — vascular and nonvascular. Here's a video that explains the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants and then focuses on the over 24,000 types of nonvascular...
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Instructional Video4:40
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California Academy of Science

Why Protect Pollinators?

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Would you rather having biting flies or chocolate? The question may seem absurd, but cocoa trees rely on pollination from biting flies. Viewers come to understand the importance of pollinators to our food supply, flowers, and entire...
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Instructional Video5:24
TED-Ed

The Sexual Deception of Orchids

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
A plant engaged in sexual deception? Strange but true. Believe it or not, orchids have developed a range of sexual adaptations that permit them to attract pollinators. The narrator of a short video describes a variety of strategies used...
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Instructional Video11:54
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Crash Course

Vascular Plants = Winning!

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Viewers explore vascular plants with a video that shows their different tissues, their ability to grow taller and wider, and their parts. Young scientists then see these plants xylem and phloem and learn how vascular plants move water...
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Instructional Video8:53
Stated Clearly

What is Evolution?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Learn about the basics of the mechanism of evolution and the importance of natural selection, and examine evidence showing that we are seeing evolution playing out in every organism we encounter. In an engaging and easy-to-follow video,...
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Instructional Video8:48
Stated Clearly

What is Evolution?

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
A short video offers a simple, yet engaging, explanation of the theory of evolution using amoebas as an example. The narrator uses the example of the evolution of dog breeds as an example of how humans can influence the course of change.

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