Lesson 43 of 84 · Animals

Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

How Plants Get Water (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #43

How Plants Get Water (Part 2).

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

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Mind = Blown

🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Plants need sunlight, water, air, and soil to grow. Each part of the plant has a job: roots drink water, stems hold the plant up, and leaves catch sunlight.

Key Words

migrate
adapt

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?

Step 2 — Do

Plant two seeds: put one in sunlight and one in a dark closet. Water both the same amount each day.

Step 3 — Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 — Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do worms do for the soil?

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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