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Photosynthesis for Little Kids

Meet Pip the plant scientist! Read the mini story, then solve the clues about how plants make food.

Pip’s Leafy Lunch

Pip is a young bean plant growing on a sunny windowsill. Its roots take in water from the soil. Its leaves take in a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. With energy from sunlight, Pip uses water and carbon dioxide to make a sugar food inside its leaves. This is how plants make their own food. Plants do not eat food from a plate like we do: they make their own. They also release oxygen into the air. If Pip gets too little sunlight or water, it cannot make as much food and may grow slowly.

1.Pip’s roots take in which ingredient to help the plant make food?
  • Water
  • Sunlight
  • Oxygen
2.Which gas does Pip take in from the air to help make sugar food?
3.Circle the three things Pip needs to make food: sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, sweets, soil.
4.What sweet food do plants make inside their leaves?
5.True or false: Plants get their food by eating food from a plate.
TrueFalse

A Leaf Test Clue

Scientists can test a leaf for starch, a stored form of plant food. They add iodine solution. If starch is present, the iodine changes from orange-brown to blue-black. This test must be carried out carefully by an adult; never taste iodine or other science liquids.

6.Iodine turns blue-black when it finds which stored plant food?
  • Starch
  • Water
  • Carbon dioxide
7.A leaf turns blue-black in the iodine test. What does this tell Pip’s scientist?
8.Pip’s windowsill becomes shady for many days. What might happen to Pip’s food-making and growth? Use the story to explain.
9.Plants release a gas into the air while making their own food. What is this gas?
10.Finish Pip’s science note: “Sunlight gives the plant energy. The roots take in , and the leaves take in from the air.”
11.Imagine you are Pip. Draw yourself making food in the sunlight, with roots taking in water and leaves taking in a gas from the air. Add arrows to show what goes into the plant.

3 printable pages

  • Photosynthesis for Little Kids, page 1 of 3: Pip’s Leafy Lunch

    Page 1

  • Photosynthesis for Little Kids, page 2 of 3: A Leaf Test Clue

    Page 2

  • Photosynthesis for Little Kids, page 3 of 3: 11. Imagine you are Pip. Draw yourself making food in the sunlight, with roots taking

    Page 3

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