Seed Dispersal Around Campus

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 4Ages 9 to 10·Nature and science·Worksheet
Seed Dispersal Around Campus

Pick a plant. Find its offspring. Map where they are.

This is dispersal made visible at a scale a child can walk. Seedlings cluster near the parent and then there are outliers, and explaining the outliers requires a mechanism, which is exactly the reasoning the sheet is after.

Birds explain most of them.

The page has the site map, a plotting method, and an analysis frame. It works best with something prolific and identifiable at seedling stage. Papaya is ideal in the tropics, since it comes up everywhere and is unmistakable even when small.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

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Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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