Unit 2: The life cycle of flowering plants

Why plants have flowers, how seeds are spread, the parts of a flower, pollination and plant life cycles.

• 2.1 Why plants have flowers – Flowers are how plants make seeds.
• 2.2 How seeds are spread – Seeds travel – and the wind can carry them far.
• 2.3 Other ways seeds are spread – Seeds hitch rides on animals, float on water – or explode!
• 2.4 The parts of a flower – Petals, stamens and carpels – each part has a job.
• 2.5 Pollination – Moving pollen from anther to stigma.
• 2.6 Investigating pollination – Which flowers do insects like best?
• 2.7 Plant life cycles – Seed to plant to flower to seed – round and round.