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Which Plants Can Live Here?

Compare plant survival in two rainforest garden beds and use evidence to explain why a habitat suits some plants better than others.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare data showing that plants survive differently in the same habitat.
Students connect plant needs with conditions in a habitat.
Students support an argument about survival with evidence from graphs.

How to use

Read the garden records and graph labels together. Have students use the data and plant needs to answer questions, then support a survival claim with numbers.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

3-LS4-3

Argue that in a habitat some living things survive well, some less well and some cannot survive.

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Which Plants Can Live Here?

Use rainforest garden records to connect survival with habitat conditions.

Read the Garden Records

Read the passage and both graphs. Use the records to answer the questions.

Two Beds Beside the Rainforest

A rainforest visitor center has a shaded garden bed beneath tall trees and a sunny garden bed in a clearing. Both beds have loose soil. Rainwater drains away, so neither bed has standing water. These made-up practice records show what happened to three kinds of young plants.

At the start, a gardener placed 10 shade ferns, 10 sunflowers, and 10 water lettuce plants in each bed. Plants of the same kind started at about the same size. The gardener changed the amount of sunlight by using the two locations. Both beds had the same kind of soil, and the gardener kept the soil damp. No plants were added or moved. After four weeks, the gardener counted how many plants were still alive.

The plant kinds have different needs. Shade ferns grow best with dim light and damp soil. Sunflowers grow best with plenty of sunlight and roots in soil. Water lettuce floats on the surface of a pond, with its roots hanging in the water.

The graphs show results for these plants during these four weeks. They do not show what would happen in every habitat or over a whole year.