Summary
When your socks get super dirty, you can wash them -- or plant them! Walk outside, pick up seeds on your socks, and plant them to see what grows. A hands-on look at how seeds travel.
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Ages 5+
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Dirty socks become a surprising experiment in how seeds get around.
- How did seeds end up on the socks?
- What are some ways seeds travel from one place to another?
- What do the seeds need to grow once they land in the dirt?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: seed, disperse, sprout.
Try it: List two ways a seed can travel, and draw the plant that might grow from a planted sock.