Plants As Resources

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Plants As Resources

• Sol 2.8

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Plants Are Useful
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Plants Give Us Medicines

• Over ½ of medicines are used from plant parts.
• Medicines are used to help heal and cure
  illnesses and diseases.

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Plants Give Us Food

• We eat different types of foods that come from a
  plant.
• We eat the stems, roots, leaves, flowers, and
  seeds of a food.

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Plants Give Us Clothing

• Materials are made from plants to make the
  clothing (shirts, hats, gloves) we wear.

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Plants Give Us Things to Build

• The trunks of trees are cut down and used for
  lumber.
• Lumber is used to help us build things such as
  houses, sheds, boats, and schools.

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Plants Give Us Paper

• Parts of trees are used to make all kinds of
  paper.

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Plants Help Us Breathe

• Plants provide oxygen for humans and animals to
  breathe.
• Oxygen is a fancy word for air.
• Humans and animals cannot breathe without air.

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Plants Give Us Shelter

• Many animals use plants as a place to live.
• Birds live in tree branches.
• Owls live in tree trunks.
• Monkeys use branches to escape from predators.

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Plant Quiz

• Plants are used to make ____________ to help heal
  and cure illnesses and diseases.

medicines
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Plant Quiz

• Which parts of a plant do we eat?

Stems, leaves, roots, flowers, fruits
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Plant Quiz

• Trees are used to make _______________
  and____________.

paper
lumber
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We Use Plants Everyday

• Look around the room. What might have come from
  a plant?
• Think about what you ate today. Which items may
  have come from a plant?