What Is a Mammal?

Lab Brief #4

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

What you'll learn

Mammals have fur and feed milk to their babies. Dogs, cats, and humans are mammals!

Key words

mammal
A warm-blooded animal with hair that feeds its babies milk.

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

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

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Sort animal picture cards into groups: animals with fur, feathers, or scales.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

Which animal is a mammal?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

Mammal mothers feed their babies:

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What covers the bodies of most mammals?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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