Plants in Motion
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- K–12
- Subjects
- science (agriculture, biology and life science)
- Provider
- Indiana University
- Special requirements
- Quicktime is required for the video portions of the site.
Legal
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Roger Hangarder from the University of Indiana has created a collection of time-lapse photography movies that allow “us to see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrate that plants are living and capable of some extraordinary things.” The Plants in Motion movies show that “plants are in constant motion as they develop, search for light and nutrients, avoid predators, exploit neighbors, and reproduce.”
Movie topics include:
- Germination
- Photomorphogenesis
- Tropisms
- Nastic Movements
- Circadian Responses
- General Growth
- Flowers
- Cellular Responses
Additional teaching materials include information for making your own time-lapse videos and plant projects such as reproducing an experiment conducted by Darwin to record plant movements and creating images in leaves by chloroplast movements.
