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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 7 of 11

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.13(A) · the roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of plants

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Roots drink water. The stem holds the plant up.
  2. Leaves make food from sunlight.
  3. Flowers make seeds. Bees visit flowers.

Example: Which part drinks water from the soil? The soil is under the ground. Roots grow down into it. Answer: roots

Plant Parts at Work in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 11 in Kindergarten Science, after Sun & Moon Patterns and before Where Animals Live.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Bees visit which plant part?

    • Bark
    • Flowers
    • Stems
    • Roots

  2. Question 2

    Which plant part do we eat when we eat a carrot?

    • Flower
    • Seed
    • Leaf
    • Root

  3. Question 3

    Roots drink up…

    • sunlight
    • sand
    • water
    • air only

  4. Question 4

    A tree trunk is a big…

    • leaf
    • stem
    • root
    • flower

  5. Question 5

    What do leaves catch for the plant?

    • Snow
    • Bugs
    • Sunlight
    • Rocks

  6. Question 6

    A cactus has a thick stem. It stores…

    • rocks
    • water
    • bugs
    • snow

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