What Living Things Need
Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
What a learner can do afterwards
- List the basic needs of animals: water, food, air, shelter
- List the basic needs of plants: water, light, air, suitable temperature
- Explain what happens if one basic need is missing (e.g. 'the plant wilts without water')
The lesson
All living things need things to stay alive. Animals like dogs need water, food, air, and shelter.
Plants are alive too, but they need different things. Plants need water, light, air, and the right warmth.
Mia waters her plant and puts it near a window. The plant gets water, light, and air. It grows tall and green.
If a need is missing, a living thing can get sick. A plant with no water wilts and droops.
Living things need water, air, and food or light, or they can get sick.
Watch it
Where it sits
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.