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Science · Kindergarten

What Plants and Animals Need

Children run a plant investigation in a simulation, changing the hours of light and whether the plant gets water, and read the results to find that plants need both light and water to grow well. They sort animals by whether they eat plants, other animals or both, and find the big pattern: all living things need water, plants use light to make their own food, and animals must eat.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 50 minutes
  • Living things' needs check: 5 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, match pairs and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Use results from a plant investigation to show that plants need water and light to grow well.
  • Explain that animals get food by eating plants, other animals or both.
  • Describe the pattern: all living things need water; plants need light to make food; animals need to eat food.

Lessons

  1. Do plants need light and water? 5 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  2. What do animals eat? 4 steps2 practiceabout 16 min
  3. A pattern for all living things 4 steps2 practiceabout 16 min
  4. Living things' needs check 5 questions at the end

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