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A red maple leaf drawn as a Xeed, in glowing film.
Drawing: a red maple as a Xeed.

Pick a real plant. Test your idea.

xeed learn is a free site for classrooms. Follow a plant through a Philadelphia year.

Student

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Open My plant

No account, email or password. What Xeed stores and shares

Your notebook stays on this device until you send it to your teacher.

One plant. Four steps.

Choose one of eight real plants. Then do four steps.

A river birch branch drawn as a glass portrait.A black-eyed Susan drawn as a Xeed.A red maple drawn as a Xeed.An eastern redbud branch drawn as a glass portrait.A wild bergamot stem drawn as a glass portrait.
Open My plant

Drawings of five of the eight plants.

  1. Observe

    Mark four branches on a real plant.

    Photo: Cathy Dewitt, NC State Extension. CC BY 4.0. Marks added.

    Red maple leaves in autumn colour against a blue sky and a dark trunk. Four numbered marks sit on its branches.

    Your first idea

  2. Test

    Go to the same day in 2025 in the Weather lab and answer the same questions.

    The model tree is one red maple, on Philadelphia’s recorded weather of 2025. It is not your own plant.

  3. Example

    Explain

    Compare your plant with the model, say why they might differ, and write your week’s reflection.

    Your first idea stays as you wrote it. A difference is something to explain.

    Example: the four branches a student recorded, over the same four in the model on the same day in 2025. Branches 2, 3 and 4 differ.

  4. Example

    Return

    Keep going back to the same plant. A partner and your teacher read along until the period ends.

    Drawing: a red maple as a Xeed. It is not your own plant.

    Open My plant

Your teacher can plan it and read it.

  1. You

    Start today

    Anyone can use it, in class or on their own.

  2. Send to teacher

    Your notebook stays on this device until you send a link.

  3. Your teacher opens your link

    Your teacher reads your work and gives the grade.

Teacher

What your teacher does

Open For teachersTry a worked year

  1. Plan

    Five classes over eight weeks. Phones or Chromebooks.

  2. Set up devices

    Students keep their work on their own device.

  3. Read

    Open a student’s link, then print it or save it.

  4. Rate

    Rate it at Classes 1, 3 and 5.

Your Xeed

Your real plant as a Xeed. To change it, visit the real one.

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A black-eyed Susan drawn as a Xeed.
Drawing: a black-eyed Susan as a Xeed. It is not your own plant.
A red maple drawn as a Xeed.
Drawing: a red maple as a Xeed. It is not your own plant.