🌱 Plants
What plants need to grow, their parts and the jobs each part does.
📎 Curriculum reference: Singapore Primary Science Teaching & Learning Syllabus (2023) — reference only; original EduManual content. · ✅ Verified by EduManual Science Team
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📖 Key words
💭 Inference · 推断 · inferens
A guess about WHY, based on what you saw.
An explanation you make based on what you observe.
👀 Observation · 观察 · pemerhatian
Looking, listening and noticing carefully.
Using your senses to notice what is happening.
🌱☀️ Photosynthesis · 光合作用 · fotosintesis
Plants use sunlight to cook their own food in their leaves.
The process by which plants use light energy to make their own food.
🦸 Myth busters for this topic
❌ "Plants eat soil to grow."
✅ Plants make their own food using light, water and air. Soil provides support and minerals, not food.
A plant growing in water (hydroponics) proves soil is not the food. Most of a tree's mass actually comes from the air!
Try it yourself: Grow a bean in a jar with cotton wool and water only — it still sprouts and grows.