Plants!

Plants are amazing things! They give us food and produce the air we breathe. Plants are living things. Because they are living they need things to stay alive, just like you and I. What do plants need? 

What Plants Need!

Plants need: 

Air

Sunlight

Soil

Water

How a plant grows: 

The rootstake in water from the soil. 
The stemholds the plant up. 
The leaves take in air and sunlight. 

The flowers of a plant are colorful and produce seeds for the reproduction of the plant. 

Trees:

Trees are tall, woody plants. 

Trees have a thick, hard stem called a trunk.

They have roots and branches. 

Some trees have flowers and fruits.

 

Deciduous trees lose their leaves in autumn. 

Evergreen trees are green all year round.

Flowers:

Some plants have flowers.

Most flowers have four parts:

sepal, petals, stamens, and pistil.

Flowers make seeds

These seeds then make new plants. 

Some flowers turn into fruits 


The fruit contains seeds. When the fruit falls to the ground, new plants grow from the seeds.

Non-flowering plants: 

Mosses and ferns are plants. Mosses are short and soſt.

Ferns have green leaves. Mosses and ferns don’t have flowers and they can’t make seeds. They reproduce with spores.

Ferns are small and green and live in shady places. They have roots, stems, and leaves. Ferns donʼt have flowers or fruits.

Here is a picture of mosses and ferns, can you tell which is which?

Finish off with these exercises! 

1.- Write the correct part of the plant according to the description.

LEAVES     -      STEM      -      FLOWER     -      ROOTS

_____________________they take in water and nutrients from the soil.

_____________________they take energy from sunlight and make food for the plant.

_____________________it takes water though the plant to the leaves.

_____________________it matures to form the fruit.

2.- LABEL THE PARTS OF THE PLANT