24 Plants: Supplemental Guide 1A | Introduction to Plants
Presenting the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
Introduction to Plants
Show image 1A-1: Living things
There are many different kinds of people, animals, and plants that
live in our world. You probably know the names of many of the living
things in this picture.[Invite a few students to point to and name a person, an animal, and a plant.]
In some ways, people, animals, and plants are alike—or the same—
they are all alive, or living. They need food, water, and air to grow and
stay alive.[Have students repeat the three things living things need to stay alive—food,
water, and air.]
But people, animals, and plants are different—or not the same—
in many other ways. Plants are different from people and animals
because plants do not make sounds, and they cannot move from one
place to another. Show image 1A-2: Dandelion in the sidewalk
Plants need food, water, air—and one more thing, light—in order to
live and grow.Where do you think plants get their light from?[Call on two volunteers to answer.]- Plants get their light from the sun.
If a plant has these four things—food, water, air, and light—it can live.
It can live even in a little crack in the sidewalk.
[Have a student point out the dandelion growing in the crack in the sidewalk.]
The plant with yellow flowers in this picture is called a dandelion.
A few weeks ago, a tiny dandelion seed floated through the air and
landed in this crack.[Have a student point to the crack.]
Inside this crack, there was just enough soil—or layer of dirt—for it to
begin to grow.