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What Plants Need: Picture and Word Matching
Cut out the plant-needs pictures and match them with their word labels. Use the completed matches to discuss what helps plants grow.

- Year levels
- Foundation–Year 1
- Pages
- 2
- File type
- Subject
- Nature & Plants, Life Sciences, Science
- Resource types
- Worksheets
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About this resource
This resource includes 1 worksheet that serves as a cut and glue activity for students. It is all about what plants need.
Students will match the pictures to the words. Words included are sunlight, soil, water and air. They will cut out the pictures at the bottom of the page and paste them onto the correct word.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Match a picture to its corresponding word for something a plant needs to grow.
Teaching tips
Pre-cut the picture cards for younger students who are not yet ready to cut accurately, then let them focus on matching and gluing.
Review each plant-need vocabulary word aloud as a class before independent gluing, since the page is a match-by-sight task.
Skills covered
- Vocabulary matching — connect each pictured plant need with its printed word.
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Core concepts
Core concepts
- Plant needs
- Picture-word matching
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