Plants, Animals, and People Use Energy
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What's Inside
How do you get and use energy? How do plants and animals get and use energy?
This kindergarten science book helps children think about energy in plants, animals, and people. It supports early science talk about how living things get energy and what they use it for.
Children can practice comparing living things and using new science words. It fits shared reading with teachers, parents, and caregivers.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Plants, Animals, and People Use Energy into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Science vocabulary
- Living things and energy
- Comparing plants, animals, and people
- Cause and effect
- Oral language and discussion
Discussion Questions
- 1 What do you already know about energy in your body, and how do you think it helps you move, think, or play?
- 2 The title says plants, animals, and people use energy. How are those three groups alike, and how might they be different?
- 3 Why do you think a plant needs energy if it cannot walk or talk the way animals and people do?
- 4 Where do you think animals and people get energy from, and how does that energy help them during the day?
- 5 After reading, how would you explain to someone what it means to get energy and use energy?
- 6 Can you think of one thing you do each day that takes energy from your body?
Words to Learn
- energy
- Energy is what living things use to move, grow, and do work.
- plant
- A plant is a living thing that needs energy to grow and stay alive.
- animal
- An animal is a living thing that uses energy to move and live.
- people
- People are living things that use energy for thinking, moving, and growing.
- use
- To use something means to do something with it.
- get
- To get means to take in or receive something.
- living things
- Living things are plants, animals, and people that need energy to stay alive.
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