Lesson 1 of 5 · Life Cycles
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleAnimal Life Cycles
Life Cycles.
🎯 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
All animals go through a life cycle: they are born, they grow, they have babies, and they eventually die. Different animals have different life cycles.
Key Words
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Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a life cycle?
Where you see this in real life
Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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Animal Life Cycles
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
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