Third graders learn how a plant's parts work as a team, from roots that drink to leaves that make food, and match each plant part to the job it does.
Students will be able to…
A plant cannot move, yet it drinks, makes its own food, and grows new plants. How do its parts work together to do all that?
Project this and match each plant part to its job — tap a part, then tap what it does.
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A plant cannot move, yet it drinks, eats, and makes new plants. How does it do all that with no legs and no mouth?
Students match each plant part to its job.
Students follow water through a plant.
Students label a plant diagram.
Students reflect on plant parts.
Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (Grade 3 / Elementary Science).
Construct an argument that plants have structures that support survival and growth.
Describe how plants use their external parts to survive and grow.
Developing and using models to describe phenomena.
Use information from illustrations and words to show understanding of a text.
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Have students draw a plant, label its five parts, and write the job of each, so the plant's teamwork becomes clear. A printable parts-of-a-plant worksheet is in the Science library.
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