Summary
“What a Plant Needs to Stay Alive” is a Jack Hartmann learning song-and-movement video that teaches the parts of a plant and what they do. Short and catchy — an easy warm-up, transition, or science review.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
A plant's parts each have a job — roots drink water, leaves make food from sunlight, and the flower makes seeds.
- What are the main parts of a plant?
- What job does each part do?
- Which part takes in water? Which makes food from sunlight?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: roots, stem, leaf, flower, plant.
Try it: Draw a plant, label its parts, and write the job of one part.