Learn how plants reproduce from seeds, bulbs, tubers, runners and cuttings by pollinating flowers, digging up bulbs and taking cuttings with Pip.
Chapter 5: Seeds and copies: two parents or one
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Year 5 science · 1
Year 5 science · 1
Year 5 science · 1
Year 5 science · 1
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How Plants Reproduce is an interactive science game that teaches children aged 8–11 how flowering plants make seeds and how new plants grow from bulbs, tubers, runners and cuttings. It follows the Year 5 science curriculum for England.
Players guide a bee between flowers to see pollination, watch a pollen tube reach an ovule for fertilisation, and spread seeds by wind and by bird. They slice open a daffodil bulb, sprout a potato tuber, root a strawberry runner and take a mint cutting step by step, as a gardener would.
Along the way they learn that seeds come from two parents, so seedlings can look a little different, while bulbs, tubers, runners and cuttings make copies of one parent plant. A narrator reads every step aloud, and a 10-question final quiz, including spelling the key words, checks what they remember.
Plants reproduce in two main ways. Flowering plants make seeds after pollen from one flower joins an ovule in another, while some plants grow copies of themselves from bulbs, tubers, runners or cuttings, which need only one parent.
Pollination is when pollen moves from the anther of one flower to the sticky stigma of another, often carried by insects or the wind. Fertilisation happens afterwards, when a pollen tube grows down and the pollen joins an ovule, which can then become a seed.
Asexual reproduction is when a new plant grows from just one parent, so it is an exact copy of that parent. Daffodil bulbs, potato tubers, strawberry runners and stem cuttings are all examples of plants reproducing this way.
The game suits children aged 8 to 11 and matches the Year 5 science curriculum in England. Younger players can follow along because every instruction is read aloud and the screens use short sentences and lots of tapping, dragging and sorting.
It has five chapters and a 10-question final quiz, and takes about 40 minutes to play through. Players can pick any chapter from the garden map, stop at any time and carry on later from where they left off.
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