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1st grade · Science · Unit 4 of 7

Plant Parts at Work

Roots, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds.

What your child practices

Practices what each outside part of a plant does to help it survive and grow, from roots that drink water to thorns that keep animals away.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 1.L2U2.7 · how living things use their parts and resources to grow and survive

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Roots take in water. Stems hold the plant up.
  2. Leaves make food. We eat the leaves of lettuce.
  3. Flowers make seeds. Seeds grow into new plants.

Example: What do flowers help a plant make? Flowers turn into fruit with seeds inside. Answer: seeds

Plant Parts at Work in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 4 of 7 in 1st grade Science, after Parents & Babies and before How Plants Grow & Change.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A seed grows into a…

    • new plant
    • bird
    • rock
    • cloud

  2. Question 2

    Which part makes most of the plant's food?

    • Thorns
    • Seeds
    • Leaves
    • Roots

  3. Question 3

    What do flowers help a plant make?

    • Soil
    • Seeds
    • Rocks
    • Roots

  4. Question 4

    Where do seeds often grow?

    • Inside a rock
    • Inside a leaf
    • Inside a root
    • Inside a fruit

  5. Question 5

    Why do some plants have thorns?

    • To catch rain
    • To make seeds
    • To keep animals away
    • To float

  6. Question 6

    Why do maple seeds have wings?

    • To sting
    • To swim
    • To fly away and spread
    • To dig

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