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Parts of a Plant Training Center

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Parts of a Plant

Tree roots have split the Root Cavern's ceiling open — but the roots aren't the enemy, they're doing their job. Naming each part's job is what talks them back.

What you're training for

In the Root Cavern, chunks of rock keep dropping. The roots knit the ceiling back together for whoever can match roots, leaves and trunk to their jobs. Train here first; prove it in the simulation.

The science

  • Roots drink water and grip the soil — an anchor and a straw in one.
  • Leaves catch sunlight and make the tree's food — the plant's own solar kitchens.
  • The trunk carries water up from roots to leaves — a bundle of living pipes.
  • Every part serves the others: cut off any one job and the whole tree fails. That's why the parts matter, not just their names.

Teach it today — one stalk of celery

See the pipes. Stand celery in colored water overnight — by morning the color has climbed the stalk, and slicing it shows the pipes that carried it. That's the trunk's job, caught in the act. Then play the parts relay: teacher calls a job, students touch toes (roots), spread arms (leaves), or stand tall (trunk).

Trained and ready? Prove it at Stop 1 — the Root Cavern. Free, no logins, progress saved on the device.

Enter the Realm at Stop 1

Resources in this training center

Worksheets, reading passages, flashcards and printables for this lesson are being added — new resources land here first. Get one email a month when they do, or browse the whole free library.

The hands-on half: the Wild Earth Expedition Adventure Kit puts six real specimens, six Digs, six Gemlings and the Realm map in your students' hands — $19.99, or $15 a student for classrooms.

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