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Plants in different habitants booklet

Plants in different habitants booklet

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  • Unit 1: Environments & habitants
  • Unit 2: Forces & movement
  • Unit 3: Getting materials right
  • Unit 4: Humans and animals grow
  • Unit 5: Light
  • Unit 6: Electricity

This Topic is About...

  • I will learn that a plant’s home is called its habitat and describe what it is like.
  • I will talk about different plants that live in the same habitat.
  • I will compare different habitats to see how they are the same and different for plants.
  • I will carefully observe plants and record what I see using drawings and tables.

You’re going to be a plant habitat explorer!

 

Key Words

  • crack
  • describe
  • desert
  • photograph
  • pretend
  • record
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  • crack: to break something so that a line appears but it is not fully broken.
  • describe: to tell or write what something is like.
  • desert: a very dry place with little rain and very few plants.
  • photograph: a picture taken using a camera.
  • pretend: to act as if something is real even when it is not.
  • record: to write down or keep information so you do not forget it.
 
 

🌱 Many Habitats for Plants

Plants grow in many different habitats.

 

💧 Water Is Essential

All plants need water. Many plants grow in or by water.

 

🌊 Growing Near Rivers

Plants grow by a river.

 

🏞️ Stream Habitats

Plants grow in a stream.

 

🌱 Plants in Hot Deserts

Some plants live in hot deserts. It is very dry in these places.

 
 

Think like a scientist 1 – Plants in different habitats

Question: Where can plants grow in different habitats around our school?

Equipment: Notebook or recording sheet, pencil, (optional) camera or tablet to take photographs.

Safety First:

  • Walk carefully and follow your school’s rules when you are outside.
  • Do not pick plants unless your teacher says it is allowed.
  • Stay with your group or an adult.

Method:

  1. Go outside and look at different places around your school.
  2. Look for plants growing in different habitats, such as:
    • against a wall
    • in a shady place
    • in a wet place
    • in a dry pathway
    • under something
    • in a plant pot
  3. Choose one plant to look at closely. This example in the book shows a plant growing on a path. Its roots have grown down a crack to find soil.
  4. Take a photograph or draw a picture of a plant and where it is growing.
  5. Record your plants and their habitats in your notebook or on a simple table or chart.

Follow-up Questions:

1. Which different habitats did you find for plants around your school?
2. How does the place where a plant is growing help it to get what it needs?
3. Did you see any plants growing in cracks or on paths like the example? What do their roots do?
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  • Plants might be found beside walls, in grassy areas, near drains or puddles, under benches, in plant pots or flower beds.
  • Each habitat gives plants things they need, such as light, water, air and soil to grow their roots.
  • Plants growing in cracks on paths push their roots down into small spaces where there is soil and water.

Well done, young scientist – you have explored real plant habitats around you!

 

Think like a scientist 2 – Plant habitat record

Task: I found this plant growing in the          . Use this page to record what its habitat is like.

What to do:

  1. Draw your plant carefully in the box on the left.
  2. Look closely at the place where it is growing.
  3. Decide if the plant has soil, water and light. Tick or circle “yes” or “no”.
  4. Write a short sentence to describe the habitat.
Here is a drawing of my plant.
 
 It has some soil?   yes / no
It has water?   yes / no
It has light?   yes / no

This habitat was...

 

Great work, young scientist – you have described a plant’s habitat using your own observations.

 
 

🌱 Places Without Plants

Environments where plants don’t grow are special places on Earth where conditions are too hard for plants to survive.

 

🌱 Different Plant Habitats

Different plants like different habitats, so each kind of plant grows best in the place that suits it.

 

🌱 Plants Around Our Planet

This means that in most parts of planet Earth we can find plants growing in places that give them what they need.

 

🌱 Spotting Empty Environments

The pictures show some of the rare places where plants don’t grow at all, because the habitat does not provide what plants need.

 
 

QUESTIONS – PLANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS

1. Why are there no plants in these environments?

Show answer
In these environments plants cannot get what they need to live. There may be almost no water, the temperatures may be too hot or too cold, the soil may be missing, or there may be very little light. Because plants cannot get enough water, light and suitable soil, they cannot grow there.

2. Think of another environment where plants cannot grow.

Show answer
Plants cannot grow in places like deep caves with no light, on the surface of active volcanoes, or on bare ice in the coldest parts of Antarctica. In these environments conditions are too extreme and plants cannot get the water, light and soil they need.
 

Think like a scientist 2 – Finding all the plants in a habitat

Question: What different plants can we find growing in one habitat?

You will need: a magnifying glass

What to do:

  1. Look at all the different plants which grow in a habitat.
  2. Draw the plants growing in their habitat.

Record your observations:

Use a table like this to help you organise what you see.

Drawing of the plant in its habitat Drawing of a leaf Does it have flowers? Drawing of a flower
       
       

Think and talk:

Did you find plants growing on a path?
Why do plants find a path a difficult place to grow?

How am I doing?

  • Pretend that you are a tree. Describe to a friend the habitat you want to live in.
  • Are there other types of plants in your habitat?
  • Does your friend agree with your ideas?
Show reflection prompts
  • What new plants did you discover in this habitat?
  • Which parts of the habitat helped the plants to grow well?
  • Is there anywhere plants could not grow? Why not?

You are doing careful observation work, just like a real scientist.

 

WHAT WE LEARNED

Today we learned that a plant’s habitat is the special place where it lives and gets what it needs. We found out that different plants live in different habitats and that we can compare these places and record what we see in drawings and tables. Great work exploring plant habitats!

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