Lesson 2: Plants and Animals and Others

Last blog, we saw the differences between living and non-living things.

In this chapter, we will deal with living things.
Amongst living things, we can broadly divide them into plants, animals, fungi and microbes.

Plants:
Plants are usually green in color. They have leaves, roots and stem. Plants can produce their own food. They also produce food for all the other animals. Generally, plants cannot move around, and their movement is restricted.

Activity: Choose a plant in your backyard. Identify
1. Leaves
2. Stem
3. Roots
4. Flowers

Do it for different plants. See how different plants differ in their shape and size. Also notice how different the individual parts of plants are.

Wonder why: Why is that plants are green in color? Can they have other colors? Why is that flowers can have many colors while leaves get green?

Animals:

Animals are varied in shape and size. Generally, animals can move. Movement is often a major difference between plants and animals. There are many kinds of animals and they have differing body parts.

Most animals move by their legs, fins, scales or wings.

Activity: Find common animals in your local neighborhood that

1. Move with legs
2. Move with fins
3. Move with wings

Question:
1. What do you call the animals that have wings ?
2. Do animals produce their own food? (Mommies are not included)
3. What food does each animal eat?