How Plant Parts Work
Your child knows each plant part has a job. Roots drink up water, the stem carries it upward, leaves make food, and flowers make seeds for new plants.
In curriculum terms
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food, flowers enable reproduction
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Can your child explain why a flower needs roots underground and leaves up top — what job does each part do?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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