What Do Plants Need?
Written by Patrick Lay Photography by Michael Curtain
What Do Plants Need? Text type: Personal Narrative Level: H (14) Word count: 222 High-frequency words New: could does need now Key vocabulary bean experiments flowers grew grow leaves plant/s roots seed seedling sunlight water Curriculum link • Science: Living things
What Do Plants Need?
Key concepts • Plants have needs. • Plants need water to grow. • Plants need sunlight to grow. Reading strategy • Recognizing and using knowledge of text structure Paired book The Great Pumpkin-Growing Contest
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Written by Patrick Lay Photography by Michael Curtain
This is a plant. It has flowers, leaves, and roots.
What does it need to grow? Does it need water? Does it need sunlight? We did two experiments to find out.
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Experiment 1
2. We rolled up
Do plants need water to grow?
some paper and put it inside each plastic cup.
1. We got two plastic cups.
3. We put a bean seed in between the paper and the cup. 4
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4. We put some water in
5. We put both cups
one of the plastic cups.
in a sunny spot. 7
6. We looked at the seeds. This is what we saw . . . 3 days
5 days
seed with water
7 days
The seed with water grew into a seedling.
The seed without water did not grow. Find out if a plant
can have too
much water. 8
seed without water
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Experiment 2 Do plants need sunlight to grow?
1. We looked for a plant with green leaves.
2. We got two bits of black paper.
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4. We put paper clips on the paper to hold it in place.
5. We put tape 3. We put black paper on one leaf to stop it from getting sunlight. 12
on the paper so that no sunlight could get in.
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The leaf that had black paper on it was now yellow.
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6. After two weeks
Find out if a seed
we took off the black paper. This is what we saw . . .
without sunlight.
can grow
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