Lesson 4: Animals Live and Grow

Getting Started

Questions to Explore

• How does the environment provide living things with what they need to live and grow?
• How do living things in an environment depend on one another?

Facts and Definitions

• Animals have basic needs for food (energy), air, water, and an environment in which to live.
• Animals depend on plants or other animals to provide them with energy.
• A consumer is an organism (living thing) that eats another organism.
• A living thing that is eaten by another organism is called an energy source.

Skills

• Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth. (S)
• Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different animals (including air, water, and food) for energy and growth. (S)

Materials

• Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats by Jim Arnosky
• Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
• 2 carrots
• 2 spinach leaves
• broccoli
• celery
• paper towel
• scissors
• sunflower seeds (kit)

Introduction