Understanding the hard fight for life, playing a game.

Year of school2009/2010

Istituto StataleComprensivo

“MOLISE ALTISSIM

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CAROVILLI(Isernia)ITALY

Classe 2° A

Teacher:Roberta Conti

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Every plant (or animal) has to fight for surviving!

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A lot of seeds, but a lot of enemies too!

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Only few seeds will bud in new plants.

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If the seeds fall down in the flower bed, they find soon who will stop their

development.

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The seeds that fall in the pond become fishes and birds food.

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Who take care of the garden pulls up every unexpected

bud.

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The unluky seed that falls down on the asphalt can’t bud, of course, and dies.

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At last there is a place for everyone!In the not cultivated fieldevery seed can develop….if ananimal doesn’t eat it, obviously!!

Game table; A paper tree; The paper seeds (25); A dice.

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We need:

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1) Put the tree in the middle of the “lands”.

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2) Place the seeds on the top of the tree.

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3) Blow on the seeds, so they will fall down.

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4)Take away every seed that isn’t in the not cultivated field (asphalt, garden, flower bed, pond) and count them.

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5) For every seed thatis in the not cultivated field throw the dice and if you obtain: • 1 – the seed dies because of an herbicide;• 2 – the seed dies because of drought;• 3 – the seed survives because of the warm and wet wheater;• 4 – the seed dies because of ice;• 5 - the seed survives because a child take care of it;• 6 – the seed becomes food for a mouse and die.

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Now, play more three times being carefull toblowing on the seedsfrom different directions to do not createadvantages to the various environments.At the end you will have played with 100 seeds.

With the collected datas you can build a graph like this one to show the results in percentage: “Only few seeds survive!”

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If you want you con also play with friends!!!

Wins the game who is able to let survive the more seeds that is possible.

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Enjoy!!