Plants
Science - Second Grade
Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
Multimedia Lesson
Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
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Parts of a Plant Interactive Matching Activity
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Bean Plant Life Matching Interactive
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All About Plants Early Childhood Science
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Growth and Development Flip Chart Set
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All About Plants
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Living Things
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Non-Living Things
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Parts of Plants
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What Plants Need
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How Plants Grow
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Plants We Use
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Plants Around Us
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Parts of a Seed
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How Seeds Travel
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Plant Parts We Eat
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All About Plants Early Childhood Science
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Main Parts of Plants
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Plant Growth
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Bean Plant Life Cycle
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Animals
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Animal Growth & Reproduction
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Frog Life Cycle
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Butterfly Life Cycle
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Dragonfly Life Cycle
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Inheritance of Traits
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Growth and Development Vocabulary
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Study Guide Plants
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PLANTS Plants are living things. What are the Parts of a Plant? Let’s go from the bottom to the top. ROOTS The roots help keep the plant in the soil so it doesn’t blow away in the wind. The roots also take in water and other important things from the soil that the plant needs to grow strong. Different types of roots: o Some roots are one large root. o Other roots have many tiny roots that go out in many directions underground. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for the purchaser to print copies for non-commercial educational purposes only. Visit us at www.NewPathLearning.com.
Let’s check what we have learned so far: What is the job of the root of a plant? Let’s move up the plant a little more now… THE STEM Stems carry water and other important things taken up by the roots to the leaves. Stems also provide support for the plant – it helps the plant stand up straight and tall so that it can reach the sunlight it needs. Time to move up the plant even more… THE LEAVES Green plants make their own food in their leaves! Leaves come in many different shapes and sizes. All the way to the top of the flower now… © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for the purchaser to print copies for non-commercial educational purposes only. Visit us at www.NewPathLearning.com.
THE FLOWER The flower makes seeds so that the flower can make new flowers. Flowers come in different colors, shapes, and sizes. Let’s check what we have learned so far: In what part of the plant does a plant make its food? Tell Me More About How Flowers Make NEW Flowers: Yellow, sticky pollen on a flower needs to be moved from one flower to another flower so that flower can make seeds to grow new plants. Bees help move pollen from one flower to another. Pretty colored petals help attract bees to a flower. Every seed is a tiny plant with leaves, stems, and root parts waiting for the right things to happen to make it germinate and grow. The fruit that grows on plants has seeds inside them! When those seeds fall to the ground, they grow into new plants. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for the purchaser to print copies for non-commercial educational purposes only. Visit us at www.NewPathLearning.com.
A Plant’s Life Cycle A plant's life cycle is how long a plant lives or how long it takes to grow, flower, and make seeds. All plants need water, air, and warm temperatures to grow. Let’s Look at the Plant Life Cycle: seed seedling young plant adult plant Who Needs Plants? EVERYONE! Plants give off a gas called oxygen which is what we (and animals) need to breathe in to live. Animals also eat plants, which helps keep them alive. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for the purchaser to print copies for non-commercial educational purposes only. Visit us at www.NewPathLearning.com.
There are two MAIN kinds of plants: 1. Flowering plants 2. Non-flowering plants (these plants make spores instead of seeds) Let’s check what we have learned so far: Why do we need plants? © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for the purchaser to print copies for non-commercial educational purposes only. Visit us at www.NewPathLearning.com.
Table Of Contents: Life Cycles
1. Lesson Objectives
2.1. Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
2. Engage
3.1. Planting a Seed
3.2. A Growing Plant
3.3. Butterfly
3. Explore
4.1. Plants and Animals
4. Explain
5.1. Plants
Plants are living things that need water, air, nutrients and sunlight to grow. There are two main kinds of plants - plants with flowers and plants without flowers. Plants with flowers include fruit trees and any plant with flowers. Plants without flowers include pine trees, mosses and ferns.
5.2. Main Parts of Plants
A plant has many important parts, such as roots, stem, leaves and flowers. Each part of the plant has different functions that make it possible for the plant to live.
5.3. Roots
Roots help support the plant by anchoring it into the ground. Roots have tiny hairs that absorb nutrients from the soil, which a plant needs to grow. These root hairs also take in water from the soil, which a plant needs to live and grow.
5.4. Stem
A plant's stem is used to support the plant. The stem allows the plant's leaves to reach above the soil so that they may take in the sunshine. A plant's stem carries the water and nutrients that are taken in by the plant's roots to the rest of the plant.
5.5. Leaves
Leaves are the parts of a plant where the plant's own food is made. They use sunlight, air, water and nutrients from the soil to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.
5.6. Flowers
The main job of the flower of a plant is to make seeds. New plants grow from these seeds. Some plants form fruit to help protect their seeds.
5.7. Parts of a Plant Interactive Matching Activity
5.8. What a plant needs to grow...
Plants need many essential things in order to grow, such as water, air, nutrients, sunlight, and warm temperature. Plants need their space too!
5.9. Germination
Germination is the process by which the plant embryo inside a seed grows and a seedling grows above the soil. A seedling is a young plant that is in its early stages of growth.
5.10. Plants have different life cycles...
Living things have different life cycles. A life cycle is the way a living thing grows and changes. A flowering plant's life cycle describes the steps a plant takes to grow and become an adult plant.
5.11. Bean Plant Life Cycle
A bean plant's life cycle includes four stages: 1. Seed - contains the embryo, which will develop into the plant; 2. Sprouting seed - germinates or grows root and stem; 3. Seedling- its first leaves make food 4. Mature plant- can make seeds that will begin the life cycle again!
5.12. Bean Plant Life Matching Interactive
5.13. Animals
There are many different kinds of animals. Animals are grouped into two kinds - animals with backbones and animals without backbones.
5.14. Animals with backbones
Animals with backbones include mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles.
5.15. Animals without backbones
Most kinds of animals do not have backbones. Animals without backbones include insects, worms, crabs, spiders and many others.
5.16. Animal Growth & Reproduction
Animals produce offspring in a variety of ways. For example, many animals have live births. The offspring develop inside the female parent which then gives birth to the live young. Other organisms, like chickens and frogs, lay eggs instead of having live births. Animal life cycles vary in how long they take.
5.17. Frog Life Cycle
Like all amphibians, frogs spend their lives near water because they must return to water to lay their eggs. The four stages of a frog's life cycle include: 1. Frog eggs are laid in water. 2. Tadpoles hatch from the eggs. They breathe with gills and swim using a tail. 3. The froglet still has part of its tail and starts to breathe using its lungs. 4. By the time a froglet becomes an adult, its tail is reabsorbed.
5.18. Frog Life Cycle Matching Interactive
5.19. Butterfly Life Cycle
Butterflies and moths go through complete metamorphosis and undergo four stages of development: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (Chrysalis), and adult.
5.20. Butterfly Life Cycle Matching Interactive
5.21. Dragonfly Life Cycle
Most insects go through complete metamorphosis, but some, such as dragonflies, go through incomplete metamorphosis. This life cycle includes three stages of development: egg, nymph, and adult.
5.22. Dragonfly Life Cycle Matching Interactive
5.23. Inheritance of Traits
Have you ever wondered why offspring , the young of a plant or animal, often look like their parents? This is due to the inheritance of traits, which means that parents pass on their traits to their offspring. Animals inherit traits such as the shape and color of their body parts. Plants inherit traits such as leaf shape and flower color.
5.24. Animal Variation Due to Inherited Traits
Some offspring may appear different than one or both parents. This is because the offspring receive traits from both parents resulting in a unique combination that is different from either parent. Variations in humans are height and eye color. A child's parents may both have brown eyes, yet the child could have blue eyes.
5.25. Variation Due to Environment
Characteristics of plants and animals can be affected by their surroundings, climate or diet. For example, if you eat too much you will become heavier, and if you eat too little you will become lighter. A plant in the shade of a big tree will grow taller as it tries to reach more sunlight.
5.26. Variation Interactive Matching Activity
5.27. Adaptation
An adaptation is a trait or characteristic that helps a living thing survive in its environment. For example, it takes special adaptations to be able to live in a very cold environment. Polar bears have thick blubber and dense fur to help keep them warm.
5.28. Adaptation Interactive Matching Activity
5.29. Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
5. Virtual Investigation
6.1. Normal Conditions
6.2. No Light
6.3. No Water
6.4. Too Much Water
6.5. Analysis
6. Evaluate
7.1. Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
7. Lesson Summary
8.1. Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
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