The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

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Recognize the basic needs of living things (e.g., food, water, sunlight, and air).

It's Alive...Or Is It?

Being Alive Lesson Plan

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Compare how plants and animals satisfy their basic requirements for life.

Scinet: Plant Parts

Fossweb: plants

Grade 3 Food Production and Energy for Life

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Explain how animals depend on plants to meet their need for energy.

Lesson Plans:  The Web of Life  Weaving the Web

A

Identify the basic needs of plants and animals.

How Plants Grow:  What do living things need to survive?

The Great Plant Escape http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts3a.html

A

Recognize that animals obtain their food by eating plants or other animals.

Food Chains and Webs

Food Web Game

The Web of Life

Bitesize Revision http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/food_chains.shtml

I

Examine the major parts of plants and determine their functions.

A

Recognize that plants use sunlight, water, and air for photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis

Lesson Science Made Simple: Why do Leaves Change Color

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Explain that animals must obtain food and use food for energy.

Energy Challenge

Chain Reaction (Food Chain)

A

Compare how various animals obtain and use food for energy.

A

Match the edible parts of plants with particular plant structures.

Lesson:  Edible Vegetable Mysteries

Edible Plant Parts

Root Factory Game

D

Compare how specific animals obtain oxygen (e.g., gills, lungs).

All Things Need Oxygen

A

Match the animal with their means of obtaining oxygen.

Respiratory System Matching Game

Grade 5  Food Production and Energy for Life

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

I

Describe how various plant structures are associated with food production (i.e., stems, leaves, and stomata).

Plants breathe, too!

A

Match plant structures with their functions.

Webquest:  The Plant Process

The Great Plant Escape: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html

Internet Resources:  http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi9702.html

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/c1facts2a.html

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Identify photosynthesis as the food manufacturing process in plants.

Illuminating photosynthesis

Photosynthesis: http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/photo3.html

Magic School Bus : http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/frizfreshfacts/index.htm

UAlbertaAnimateddiagramofphotosynthesis: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/uploads/alberta/Photo.html

Internet Resource:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/photosynthesis.html#

A

Identify what plants need (i.e., water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide) to manufacture food.

Photosynthesis

Science made simple: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/leaves.html

ThinkQuest: http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/photo3.html

Internet Resource:  http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/photosynthesis.asp

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Classify organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers.

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

A

Identify how organisms obtain food for energy.

A

Classify organisms as producers, consumers, or decomposers in a food chain or food web.

The Food Chain

D

Demonstrate interrelationships among organisms in a food chain or food web.

Lesson The Web of Life

A

Infer the consequences of a change in the population size of an organism in a food chain or food web.

The student will study the basic parts of plants, investigate how plants produce food, and discover that plants and animals use food to sustain life.

D

Compare and contrast photosynthesis and respiration.

Quia Photosynthesis and Respiration

A

Determine what plants need to make food.

Making Food

A

Identify photosynthesis as the food making process in plants.

Plants

A

Identify the reactants and products of photosynthesis and respiration.

D

Relate the processes of photosynthesis and respiration to appropriate cellular organelles.

A

Associate the processes of photosynthesis and respiration with appropriate cellular organelles.

D

Diagram and explain how oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between living things and their environment.

A

Select the structures that animals use to obtain oxygen.

A

Classify animals according to their means of obtaining oxygen.

A

Select the illustration that depicts the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living things and their environment.

A

Interpret a diagram depicting the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle.

The Oxygen Carbon-Dioxide Cycle