How Plants, Animals, and People Help Each Other

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Helping each other is so important!

Maybe your mom or dad helped you tie your shoes, or maybe your grandma helped you bake cookies.

Think of another time when you helped someone with something. Maybe you helped your mom by cleaning the kitchen or peeling potatoes for dinner.

When you help someone, you feel good about yourself, and the other person feels good, too.

• When did your helping someone make a big difference?
• What did you do?
• How did it change the situation or make whomever you helped feel?

Just like you help others and other people help you, plants, animals, and humans help each other, too.

• Can you think of how we all help each other?

Think about your basic food, water, and shelter needs.

• Can you think of any ways that plants, animals, and people help each other?

Here is a list of the ways that helping each other is so important.

Plants provide food that gives animals energy.

Animals eat food and then leave manure (waste) on the ground.

Manure is a fertilizer that helps plants grow.

Plants grow fruits and vegetables that animals and humans eat.

Fruits contain seeds that come out of the animal's manure.

The animals leave manure in different places, and this helps the seeds travel and grow across the land to feed more animals and humans.

• Do you see all the fun ways things help each other on the earth?

It is so important that all parts of our planet work together!

1. Print the Graphic Organizer Sequencing Events 8 found in Downloadable Resources in the right-hand sidebar.

2. Fill in the bubbles about how plants help animals using the above information.

3. Share your organizer with someone when you are finished.

In the next section, explore other ways plants, animals, and people help each other.