This caring for people and things can be cultivated and encouraged. This unit teaches students how plants use special structures to solve the problems of survival. Living things must meet certain needs in order to survive and reproduce. Most living things must obtain nutrients, water, and oxygen. They also require an appropriate place to live.
Adaptations allow organisms to succeed.
This unit begins with a review of the needs of living things. Students also begin their unit notebooks. Students are introduced to the names of plant parts and the important life functions of plants. A sorting activity serves as a pre-assessment of student knowledge in Plant Parts , lesson 2. They then go outside to study plants at the end of the growing season.