Science Year 4 (Short Note)

Theme 1: Investigating Living Things

Unit 1: Living things have basic needs 1 Basic needs are stuff that living things must have to stay alive. (a) Humans & Animals Food, water, air, shelter (b) Plants: Air, sunlight, water 2 Humans, animals and plants will die if any one of their basic needs is not met.

Unit 2: Living things undergo life processes 1 Life processes of humans Humans carry out life processes such as - breathing through lungs - excreting and defecating to get rid of waste materials - responding to stimuli for survival and to protect ourselves from harm - reproducing by giving birth 2 Bad habits that disturb our life processes Smoking, drinking alcohol, abusing drugs 3 Life processes of animals (a) Animals breathe using lungs, gills, moist skin or trachea. (b) Animals reproduce either by giving birth or by laying eggs. 4 Life processes of plants (a) Plants respond to stimuli such as light, water, gravity and touch (b) Flowering plants reproduce by seeds. The flowers develop into fruits containing seeds. The seeds can grow into new plants. (c) Some flowering plants can also reproduce from parts of their body such as stems, leaves and suckers. (d) Non-flowering plants like ferns and mushrooms reproduce by spores.