Lesson 3 of 11 · Animals
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleTrees Are Homes
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Trees Are Homes.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Trees provide homes for many animals: birds nest in branches, squirrels live in trunks, and insects live under bark.
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.
Draw a picture of what you observe.
Share your results with a partner.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3Which animals hibernate?
Where you see this in real life
This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
Next Smart Experiment
We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.
Share this experiment
Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.
Ready?
Trees Are Homes
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
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