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Requirements for healthy fruit growth

Requirements for healthy fruit growth
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  • Requirements for healthy fruit growth
  • Duration: 00:59
  • A discussion about the conditions needed by strawberries for healthy growth. The presenter and the farmer look at strawberries growing in a field. They discuss how the warmth of the sun is important in ripening the fruit. They also talk about how the strawberry fruit progresses from a blossom to a ripe red berry around mid June. Finally they discuss how the young plants are kept warm under plastic covers after being planted in the winter months.
  • Subject:

    Science

       Topic:

    Green Plants: Growth and Nutrition

  • Keywords: growth, warmth, conditions, strawberry, fruit, blossom, ripen, berry, Darwin
Ideas for use in class
  • This clip could be used as a plenary to the lesson suggestion to visit an allotment, where plants are grown for food. The discussion between the presenter and the farmer would give the children good ideas about information to include in their poster about the conditions needed by the plant for healthy growth.
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 16x9
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