Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.
Collect seeds and discuss experience.
Objective: Students will develop an understanding of how seeds are dispersed.
Activity: Carefully take off the socks and bring back into the classroom. Students will take off the seeds collected from tehir socks and put them onto a piece of paper. Discuss experience. How is a sock like the fur of an animal? How does this help plants? Are there other ways that seeds can be moved?
Assessment: By discussing the experience, students will show an understanding of the dispersal of seeds.