Thousands of plants live on Earth. Plants grow in different places.
Some plants grow in wet shady places, like ferns. Some plants grow in hot,
dry places, like cacti. Most plants grow in sunlight, like sunflowers.
Most plants are green. Green plants can make their own food.
They need air and water to make food.
They also need a green substance called chlorophyll.
Without chlorophyll, they cannot make food.
Green plants have chlorophyll in their leaves. The leaves of a plant make food.
💧 Green leaves make food using water, air, and sunlight.Science in Action
🌱 Classroom Experiment: What Plants NeedClick items to help the sprout grow!
The sprout is waiting for sunlight, water, and air!
Kinds of plants:
There are many different kinds of plants.
Plants without seeds:
Some plants have roots, stems and leaves, but they do not have flowers.
They do not make fruits or seeds.
📝Classroom Quiz: Test Your Knowledge (Page 19)
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Read each question and choose the correct answer:
1Which plant grows in wet, shady places?
2Where do cacti grow?
3Most plants, like sunflowers, grow in:
4What can green plants make on their own?
5What is the green substance in plant leaves called?
6Which part of a plant makes food?
7Plants without seeds have roots, stems, and leaves, but they do NOT have:
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Types of Living Things: Plants
They have small brown spots on their leaves. Each spot has a brown powder.
The brown powder is made of tiny spores. The spores fall out.
Some spores fall on wet soil. They grow and make new plants. Ferns and mosses are plants that make spores.
Plants that grow from seeds:
Plants that grow from seeds are called seed-bearing plants.
Seeds are made inside flowers.
Examples include the poppy, rose, and sweet pea.
🌹 1. Red Rose (seeds) | 🌺 2. Poppies (seeds) | 🌿 3. Ferns (spores)
Structure of a flower:
A flower has four parts.
• Sepals are small green leaves that cover the bud.
• Petals are the coloured leaves of a flower.
• The stamen makes a yellow powder called pollen.
• The carpel has eggs or ovules which grow into seeds.
• The lower part of the carpel is called the ovary.
• The ovary has ovules in it.
📍 Sticky Tip of Carpel
📍 Stamen (Pollen)
📍 Petals (Coloured)
📍 Ovary (Ovules Inside)
📍 Sepals (Green)
🌸 Real Botanical Photo of a Lily Flower (Click any part or card below to explore!)
🌿 SepalsOuter Part
Small green leaves that cover and protect the flower bud.
🌸 PetalsColoured Leaves
Bright coloured leaves of a flower that attract friendly bees!
✨ StamenMakes Pollen
Makes yellow powder called pollen.
🌱 Carpel & OvaryMakes Seeds
Has a sticky tip and ovary at the bottom. Ovules become seeds!
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Types of Living Things: Plants
How a flower makes seeds:
When a bee sits on a flower, the yellow powder or pollen sticks to its body.
When the bee flies to another flower, the pollen from its body sticks to the sticky tip of the carpel.
A pollen tube grows from the pollen. It goes into an ovule in the ovary.
The ovule grows into a seed.
The lower part, or ovary, of the carpel grows to make the fruit.
🐝 When a bee visits a flower, yellow pollen sticks to its fuzzy body!
🐝 Classroom Story: Follow the Busy Bee!
🐝 Step 1: Bee sits on the flower. Yellow pollen sticks to its fuzzy body!
Step 1 of 5 (Click "Next Step" to see what happens next!)
Kinds of fruit:
Some fruits are soft and juicy, like oranges, apples, and peaches.
Some trees do not have flowers or fruits, but they do have seeds. Such trees have cones.
They have two kinds of cones. There are pollen cones that have pollen, and there are seed cones that make seeds.
Wind takes the pollen from the pollen cone to the seed cone. The pollen reaches the ovules of the seed cone. The ovules grow into seeds.
When the seeds are ripe, the seed cone opens up and the seeds fall out.
These seeds will grow into new trees of the same kind. Pine trees, for example, make cones.
🌲 Pine Tree | 🪵 Pine Cones with NeedlesConiferous Trees
Activities
1. Answer the following questions.
(a) Where do plants grow?
Show Answer ✏️
Plants grow in different places, such as wet shady places, hot dry places, and in sunlight.
✍️ Ready for students to copy into textbook
(b) What do plants need to make their food?
Show Answer ✏️
They need air, water, and chlorophyll (and sunlight).
✍️ Ready for students to copy into textbook
(c) How do plants without seeds make new plants?
Show Answer ✏️
They make new plants from tiny spores (brown powder) on their leaves that fall on wet soil.
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(d) Where are seeds made in seed-bearing plants?
Show Answer ✏️
Seeds are made inside flowers.
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(e) What are the two kinds of cones made by a pine tree?
Show Answer ✏️
Pollen cones and seed cones.
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2. Fill in the blanks.
(a) When a
...................bee
sits on a flower, the yellow powder called
...................pollen
sticks to its body. When it flies to another flower, the pollen sticks to the sticky tip of the
...................carpel.
(b) A
...................pollen tube
grows from the pollen. It goes into an
...................ovule
in the ovary. The ovule grows into a
...................seed.
The ovary grows and makes the
...................fruit.
3 Draw a pine cone.
Colors:
⭐ Model Drawing: Pine cone with scales (Copy this into textbook)
4 Draw two soft and fleshy fruits.
Colors:
⭐ Model Drawing: 1. Apple 2. Orange (Soft and Fleshy Fruits)
🍎 Fruit Classification Activity
Click a fruit to sort it into Soft & Juicy OR Dry & Hard!
