Subscribe

1st grade · Science · Unit 5 of 8

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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1L.3.1.1.1 · how plants use their outside parts to survive and grow

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 8 in 1st grade Science, after Parents & Babies and before Ideas from Nature.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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

    What does a stem do?

    • Makes rain
    • Digs holes
    • Eats bugs
    • Holds the plant up

  2. Question 2

    Roots drink up…

    • air only
    • sand
    • water
    • sunlight

  3. Question 3

    A seed grows into a…

    • new plant
    • rock
    • bird
    • cloud

  4. Question 4

    What do flowers help a plant make?

    • Soil
    • Rocks
    • Seeds
    • Roots

  5. Question 5

    Bees visit which plant part?

    • Stems
    • Flowers
    • Bark
    • Roots

  6. Question 6

    A cactus has a thick stem. It stores…

    • snow
    • rocks
    • bugs
    • water

More 1st grade