Plants: As Living Things – Basic 3 Basic Science Lesson Note (Third Term)

What Makes Plants Living Things?

Plants are living things just like animals and humans. They show all the characteristics of life.

Features of Plants

Plants Can Grow:

• Seeds grow into bigger plants

• Stems get taller over time

• Leaves become bigger and more

• Roots spread deeper into soil

Plants Need Food:

• Make their own food using sunlight
• Use chlorophyll (green color) to make food
• Take in water and minerals from soil through roots
• Different from animals who eat other things

Plants Can Reproduce:

• Make new plants like themselves
• Produce seeds that grow into new plants
• Some grow from cuttings or bulbs
• Flowers help make seeds

Plants Respond to Environment:

• Grow toward sunlight (leaves face the sun)
• Roots grow toward water in the soil
• Close flowers at night or in cold weather
• Bend away from strong wind

Plants Breathe:

• Take in carbon dioxide from air
• Give out oxygen that we breathe
• This happens through tiny holes in leaves called stomata

Plants Can Die:

• When they get too old
• Without enough water, sunlight, or good soil
• When attacked by diseases or insects
• During very cold or hot weather

Differences Between Plants and Non-living Things

Exercise 1:

1. How do plants make their own food? _______
2. What do plants give out that we breathe? _______
3. Circle living things: Stone / Mango tree / Car / Grass