CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Comparing Plants and Animals
A tutorial that compares and constrast plants and animals. Explore how living things their obtain basic needs, protect, support, and reproduce. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Plant or Animal?
In this lesson plan, learners investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson plan can be downloaded in PDF format.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animals and Plants Can Live in a City!
For this interactive lesson, students learn that animals need air, food, water, and shelter, while plants need air, sunlight, and water. Students watch videos and engage with drawing and sorting activities to reinforce their learning....
University of California
South Coast Science Project: Mimicking Plants and Animals Lesson Plan
In this instructional activity, students are challenged to think about external features that animals and plants have that humans have copied. Students then apply their engineering skills to design a jacket. In addition, this activity...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Needs of Living Things: Pre Assessment
This is a pre-assessment to be done at the beginning of a unit on the needs of living things. Students draw themselves and what they need to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: We Need Water
This lesson focuses on living things' need for water. Students make lemonade and learn that water can be found in liquids other than a glass of water, and is also found in plants. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Needs of Living Things: Post Assessment
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on the needs of living things. The lesson materials can be downloaded in PDF format.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Nova Zembla: Why Do We Need Plants?
This module explores how plants help animals survive. Bobby is a scientist on Antarctica. He discovers many amazing uses of plants. Join him and help him learn.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide
This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Needs of Living Things
Learn about the five things that all living things need to survive and why they are critical for both plants and animals.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: K Ess3 1: Environmental Relationships
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach about the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student...
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: K Ess2 2: Environmental Change
This NSTA vetted source includes resources to teach how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs. Included are assessment ideas, videos, examples, lesson plans, and photos of student work.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Needs of Living Things
In this lesson plan, students watch video clips of animals and plants in their natural environment, to gather evidence that all living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. Then, to illustrate their understanding...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Who Needs What?
The teacher leads a discussion in which students identify the physical needs of animals, and then speculate on the needs of plants. With guidance from the teacher, the students then help design an experiment that can take place in the...
Other
Australian Tourism: Facts and Planning
This is the official website for Australian tourism. It presents facts about Australia's geography, weather and climate, time zones, currency, and plants and animals, accompanied by excellent imagery. A useful feature of this page is...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Competition
Find out about what types of resources different species will compete to obtain. Answer competition questions by mousing over different pictures of animal and plants.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Who Am I? Plant and Animal Life in a Pond
After learning about pond life, learners play a game where they must ask questions to discover the name of an animal or a plant displayed on a card placed on their backs. A set of images, a questioning sheet, and a list of vocabulary...
Next.cc
Next: Air
Multiple activities explore and explain why plants and animals need air to survive.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biodomes
Students explore the biosphere's environments and ecosystems, learning along the way about the plants, animals, resources and natural cycles of our planet. Over the course of lessons 2-6, students use their growing understanding of...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Photosynthesis
This site details the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process of the production of oxygen by plants and carbon dioxide by animals, both of which are needed for respiration purposes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Endangered Species
The topic of endangered species is one that needs to be addressed with every student. As more and more plants and animals become extinct, students, as inhabitants of this ecosystem, need to be aware that human actions affect the planet....
Globio
Glossopedia: Environments
This article defines "environment" as a collection of animals and plants in a specific landscape and climate. The concept of differing types of environments is introduced. The impact of humans on environments and all environments'...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Differentiated Tiering Food Web and Chains Activity
Two differentiated tasks about food chains and webs. In the more challenging task, young scholars construct a food web to show the relationship of the animals and plants in a given environment. In the lower level task, students create a...
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Asexual Reproduction
Everything you've ever needed to know regarding asexual reproduction. Modules include Asexual Reproduction in Plants, Asexual Reproduction in Animals, Why Choose Asexual Reproduction? Materials can be used as supplemental resources or as...