HOW WE USE PLANTS

Plants have many uses and can be found everywhere we look.

There are many different kinds of plants.
A tree is one type of plant.
How many different uses for trees can you come up with?
 
 

How many of these things come from trees or other plants?
 

 
 
 
 
 

Do you remember reading the story The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein?  In case you don't remember the story click on the blue letter above to read it again.  In this story, the tree gave the boy many things.  Can you name some of those things?
 
 

Besides people, animals also need plants.  What do you think these animals would use plants for? 

Do they use plants for the same things people do?
 
 

 
 

After all the uses you have discovered for plants, do you think that humans or animals could survive without plants? 

Can you think of some ways to save plants so that we can continue to use them in the future?