Transcript Needs of Living Things

Needs of Living Things
What do we really need?
Needs of Living Things
Can you remember the
things that we really
need to survive?
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That’s right, we need:
•Food
•Shelter
•Water and
•Air (Oxygen)
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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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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 animal’s page, but be very careful
with your glue, you don’t 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.