Living Things: Nutrition & Respiration

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Living things eating and breathing illustration

🔗 Part 1: Match the Word to the Picture

Draw a line to match each word to the correct picture description.

Nutrition

Respiration

Energy

Oxygen

🌬️ Breathing in air to release energy from food

☀️ A plant using sunlight to make food

💨 The gas we breathe in from the air

⚡ The power living things need to grow and move

✏️ Part 2: Fill in the Blanks

Use the word bank to fill in the blanks below.

Word Bank: oxygen | sunlight | food | breathe | energy

1. Living things need nutrition to get _________ so they can grow and move.

2. Animals get nutrition by eating _________.

3. Plants make their own food using _________.

4. Respiration is how living things _________ in oxygen to release energy.

5. When we breathe, we take in _________ and breathe out carbon dioxide.

🌟 Part 3: My Reflection

Think about what you learned today. Answer the question below — you can write or draw your answer!

6. What did you learn about how plants and animals eat and breathe? Tell us one thing about nutrition and one thing about respiration.

7. 🎨 Draw a plant and an animal. Show how each one gets food and breathes. Add labels if you can!

8. How do you feel about today's lesson? Circle one:

😊 I understood it well!

🤔 I understood some of it.

😕 I need more help.

Living Things: Nutrition & Respiration

Living Things: Nutrition & Respiration

🔗 Part 1: Match the Word to the Picture

✏️ Part 2: Fill in the Blanks

🌟 Part 3: My Reflection

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