How do plants grow and make food?

Now that we’ve set the stage in the previous two lessons about the importance of agriculture to the development of society, let’s dive into how plants actually do grow and make food!

I mean, think about it… a seed can sit on a shelf for years. Then we put it in some soil with water and it grows into a giant plant that makes more plants with fruits full of seeds? It’s pretty magical!

So the life cycle to the right shouldn’t be anything new to you as a teenager, but we need to dive deeper into HOW the seed actually grows into a much larger organism.

tomato plant life cycle

Watch the video below and make draw a model showing in the world does a plant grow and make food?

Let’s keep learning…

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