How do living things grow and change?

Objectives:- Observe the rate of growth of seeds Recognize what do plants need to grow Differentiate between different seeds of different plants Describe the life cycle of the plants Describe the life cycles of the some animals Differentiate between the complete and incomplete metamorphoses. Differentiate between animals and plants life cycles

What do living things need to grow? All living things grow and change. All living things need food, water, and air to live.

What is the life cycle?

Each organism grow and change during their lives. Plants grow up from the seeds into a young plants and have a lot of changes and develops. Also Animals From the time of birth to death they have a lot of changes and stages.

Life cycle is The changes that happen (take place) to an organism during it’s life cycle Plant life cycle Animal life cycle

How does a plant grow from the seeds? (Example life cycle of the bean ) The seeds of the bean plant grows in four steps

The first step:- The roots appears then shoot is pushed upon the ground. The second step:- The shoot begins to sprout into a leafy plant. The third step:- True leaves begin to grow. The forth step The adult plant has flowers and beans The flowers contain pods that make seeds that can grow into a new plant.

But not all plants begin their life cycles as seeds Some plants grow from But not all plants begin their life cycles as seeds Apple seeds Bean seeds Coffee seeds

Some plants grows from the underground stems (Bulbs) like tulips and onion.

Some plants grow from another kind of underground stem called tubers such as potato.

Some plants grow up fro m parts of the old plant such as cutting parts from the stems like cane and banana tree Banana trees Sugar cane

Christmas cactus and African violet Some plants grow by putting some cutting leaves in a moist soil such mint. Christmas cactus and African violet mint Christmas cactus African violet

Some plants grow from roots such as Carrot and radish and Turnip

Grasshopper life cycle Animal life cycles Animals grow and change during their life span, or from time to birth up to death. The series of changes in appearance it called metamorphosis. Example of some animals life cycles Butterfly life cycle Frog life cycle Grasshopper life cycle

What do you think What is the differences between the following life cycles?

Do you know some one who looks like his mom or her mom? Why this child look like her mom or dad? Do you know what is heredity?  Inherited (Heredity):- When the traits pass from the parents to their children. Some traits are inherited some are not inherited

Let’s check the following traits Your eye color Birds build nest Birds to fly Speak English Cat fur color