By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
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Name the parts of a plant 🌱✓
Learn what plants need to grow 💧☀️✓
Spot plants all around us! 🌻
Let's get our brains ready first!
Wiggle your fingers like little growing seeds! 🌱✨
- ⭐Pretend to be a tiny seed. Curl up small, then grow up BIG like a plant! 🌻
- ⭐Look around and point to something green! 👀💚
This picture shows a happy plant with its roots, stem, leaves, and flower, soaking up the sunshine! 🌞🔍 What to Notice
- Look at our happy plant!
- 🌱 Up high is the bright yellow sun ☀️ sharing warm light.
- The plant has a red flower 🌸 with a yellow middle on top.
- Below are two blue-green leaves.
- 🍃 A green stem holds it up tall, and brown roots 🟤 wiggle down into the dirt.
- Yum, the plant drinks water from there!
Talk About It
1Can you point to the red flower? 🌸
2What color are the leaves? 🍃
Where does the plant drink water from? 💧
✗Thinking leaves are at the bottom. 🍃
Leaves grow up high on the stem. Roots are the ones down low! 🟤
✗Calling the stem a root. 🤔
The green stem stands up tall. Roots hide in the dirt! 🌱
🍎We eat yummy apples that grow on trees! 🌳
🌻We can grow pretty flowers in a pot to make a room happy! 🪴
Test your understanding — tap an answer to check:
Q1. What do plants need to grow? ☀️💧
Q2. Where do a plant's roots go? 🌱
- 1.Plants need sun ☀️ and water 💧 to grow!
- 2.Roots go down, leaves go up! 🌱
- 3.Plants give us yummy food and pretty flowers! 🍎🌻