Plants: Supplemental Guide 1C | Introduction to Plants 41
Show image 1A-7: City park
This environment is not a forest, not a desert, and definitely not
underwater. What is this environment?
- This is a city park.
Describe this city park environment to your partner.
[Allow students to talk for fifteen seconds. Call on two students to share.]
Why do you think people plant grass, trees, and flowers in city parks?
[Call on four students to share.]
Show image 1A-8: House plant
This is a plant in a different environment—inside a home, or indoors.
Describe this indoor environment to your partner.
[Allow students to talk for fifteen seconds. Call on two students to share.]
[If you have indoor plants in the classroom, talk about their need for food,
water, air, and light.]
Tell your partner what all plants need to live.
- All plants need food, water, air, and light to live.
Do all plants grow in the same environments? - Not all plants grow in the same places or environments.
A dandelion cannot grow in the desert, and a cactus cannot grow
underwater. In the next lesson we will learn about different parts of
plants.