Focus Question
What do plants need to survive in their habitats?

Activity Synopsis
Students will plant rice seeds and observe them over a period of two weeks to see how different factors (lack of light, lack of air, lack of nutrients (soil), lack of water and lack of space) affect their growth and development. Students will come to understand that plants need all of these things in their habitat to survive.

Time Frame
2 weeks

Student Key Terms

• habitat
• plants

Teacher Key Terms

• carbohydrate
• chlorophyll
• chloroplasts
• glucose
• photosynthesis