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Grade 5 Science · World 3: Living Library · Level 22
Seed Plants and Non-Seed Plants
Sort flowering plants and cone bearers from ferns and mosses, which use spores.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 22
- Plants split into two big groups: those that make seeds, and those that don't.
- Seed plants are either flowering plants, which grow seeds in fruits, or conifers, which grow seeds in cones.
- Ferns and mosses make no seeds. They spread by tiny spores. Look under a fern's fronds for brown dots.
- Try it with a grown-up: walk outside, and find one flowering plant, one conifer, and one moss or fern.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S5L1.b — Develop a model that illustrates how plants are sorted into groups (seed producers, non-seed producers) using data from multiple sources.