This Needs of Living Things learning resource strengthens students’ understanding of the basic survival needs of plants, animals, and humans, including air, water, food, sunlight, shelter, space, soil, nutrients, and warmth. Learners explore how living organisms depend on their environment, how plants make food using sunlight, how animals depend on plants and other animals, and how humans rely on natural resources for survival. Core life science and EVS concepts such as growth, respirati