Plants and animals

Life Sciences
Standards
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Standard Set 2. Life Sciences
2. Plants and animals meet their
needs in different ways. As a basis for
understanding this concept:

2.e. Students know roots are
associated with the intake of water
and soil nutrients and green leaves
are associated with making food from
sunlight.

2.b. Students know both plants and
animals need water, animals need
food, and plants need light.

Genre

Nonfiction

Comprehension Skill

Relate Prior
Knowledge

Text Features

• Call Outs
• Captions

• Glossary

Science Content

Living Things

Scott Foresman Science 1.3

ISBN 0-328-23478-8

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by Kim Fields


Vocabulary
leaves
living
nutrients
roots
by Kim Fields

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What are plants?
Plants are living things.
Living things are alive.
Living things have needs.

2

A cactus is a plant.
A cactus is living.
Plants can grow.
Plants can change.

3


What Plants Need
A need is something a living thing
must have to live.
Plants need water to live.
Plants also need air.

4

Plants need light.
Plants get light from the Sun.
Plants need this light to grow.

5


How do plants
meet their needs?
Plants have parts.
Many plants have the same parts.
These parts help the plant live.
They help the plant get things it
needs to grow.

Most plants have roots.
Roots keep plants in the
ground.
Roots get water from the soil.
Roots get nutrients from the soil.
Nutrients are materials that
living things need.

Roots

6

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Plants Make Food
Plants must have food.
Leaves of green plants make food.

Green leaves take in air.
Green leaves take in energy from sunlight.
Green leaves use water, air, and energy
from sunlight to make food.

The roots take in water and nutrients.
The stem takes water and nutrients
to the leaves.

Flower

Leaf

Stem

Roots

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What do animals
need?

You know living things are alive.
Animals are living things.
Animals can grow and change.
This whale is an animal.

10

Animals have needs.
They need air.
They need water.
They need food.
Animals eat food to live.

Birds need food and water.

11


Glossary
leaves

the parts of a plant that make
food for the plant

living

things that are alive, grow,
and change

nutrients

materials that living things need

roots

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part of a plant that holds the
plant in the ground and takes
in water and nutrients from the
soil

What did you learn?
1. What is a living thing?
2. What do animals need to live?
3.

Imagine that you
were given a plant as a gift. Write about
how you will take care of the plant to
keep it alive.

4.

Relate Prior Knowledge What are
some animals that you know?