Needs of Living Things

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Needs of Living Things

• What do we really need?

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Can you remember the things that we really need
to survive?
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• Thats right, we need
• Food
• Shelter
• Water and
• Air (Oxygen)

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Needs of Living Things
Last lesson we looked the difference between what
we need and what we want or would like to
have. Today we will be looking at food.
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Needs of Living Things
We eat all kind of food, some good, some not so
good. Regardless of the type of food we eat, we
all need food to survive.
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Other animals also need food to survive, but
their food is different to ours. Just think of
the type of food a pet eats, like a cat, dog or
even a goldfish. Would you eat goldfish flakes
for dinner? Lets look at the food some of the
Australian animals in our class book eat.
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A koala only eats different types of eucalypt
(gum) leaves.
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A bandicoot eats all kinds of insects and worms.
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A rainbow lorikeet eats nectar from flowers, and
native seeds.
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Squirrel Gliders also eat nectar, but they love a
dinner of delicious tree sap.
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An echidna, like the koala, has a very
specialised diet. It only eats ants.
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So you see, all animals need food. In fact all
living things need food, including plants.
Plants are able to make their own food using
minerals and water from the soil, and carbon
dioxide from the air, through a process called
photosynthesis.
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BOOKWORK TIME Can you cut out the different types
of food and match them to each animal? Glue each
one to the animals page, but be very careful
with your glue, you dont want to stick the pages
of your book together. When you have finished
that task, you can draw a picture of yourself and
your own favourite food on the back page.