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Animals Grow and Change

Animals Grow and Change
🧪Lab Brief #1

Animals Grow and Change.

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Every species solves the same problem differently.

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?

What You'll Learn

Animals grow and change over time. A tadpole grows legs and becomes a frog!

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2Do

Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.

Step 3Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 4Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What happens to a tadpole?

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Where you see this in real life

This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

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For the dinner table

Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.

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Animals Grow and Change

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

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