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Plants, Animals and Fungi: How Living Things Get Food

  • Grade 3
  • Science
  • 1 min 1 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-SC-02

A mushroom on an old log raises the question of whether it is a plant, and three cards sort living things by how they get food. A flower makes its own food from sunlight and a rabbit eats plants, while the mushroom can't make food from sunlight and instead grows tiny threads into dead wood to soak up food, so it is a fungus and not a plant.

Concept: Plants, animals and fungi

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The question this lesson answers

Is a mushroom a kind of plant?

One way to sort living things is by how they get their food.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Is a mushroom a kind of plant?

One way to sort living things is by how they get their food.

This flower is a plant.

Green plants use sunlight to make their own food.

This rabbit is an animal.

Animals cannot make their own food.

Instead, they eat plants or other animals.

Mushrooms belong to a third group, called fungi.

Fungi cannot make their own food from sunlight.

Many fungi feed on dead things, like this old log.

They grow tiny threads into the wood to soak up food.

So a mushroom is not a plant, it is a fungus.

Look for plants, animals and fungi on your next walk outside.

Green plants make their own food, but animals and fungi cannot.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

Science, Biology: biodiversity in the local environmentBC3-SC-02

Previous: Biodiversity: The Variety of Living ThingsNext: Populations and Communities in a Pond

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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