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Week 05 · Leaves and Food from Light

Thursday

Sunlight in your lunch
// How plants make their own food
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Sunlight in Your Lunch

Rocket bites into an apple at lunch. "I feel full of energy!" he says.

Raven holds up her apple. "What do you notice? Where did this apple get its energy?"

Nova hovers above the lunch table. "Follow the energy backward," she says. "Ask what came before."

Rocket thinks hard. "The apple tree. And before that... the Sun!"

Energy from the Sun

Plants capture energy from sunlight.

They store that energy in the sugar they make.

Animals, including people, eat plants.

Their bodies break down the plant sugar to get energy.

So the energy in your food was once energy from the Sun.

What food energy does

  • helps your body grow
  • helps your body repair itself
  • lets you move
  • keeps your body warm
FOLLOW THE ENERGY
  • Tap a card.
  • Then tap its spot.
1First
2Next
3Then
4Last
TRACE IT BACK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
You eat rice. Where did the energy in the rice first come from?
Which uses food energy?
Where do plants store the energy they capture?
StatementTrue or false?
The energy in an apple was once energy from the Sun.?
People make their own food from sunlight.?
Food energy helps the body grow and move.?
Food energy helps keep the body warm.?
WHY THIS EXERCISESun energy goes into plants, then into the animals that eat them.
Plants capture energy from the ____.
People get energy by eating ____.
Try it
Measure the Bright and Shade bean stems.
Write both numbers in your fair test table.
Look at the leaf colors. Write a word for each, like dark green or pale.
Safety first
Touch the plants gently.
Give both plants the same amount of water if they need it.
Wash your hands after.
Draw an energy chain from the Sun to one food you like, to you.

Excellent energy tracking! Tomorrow we read test data like real scientists.

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