Lesson 51 of 84 · Life Cycles

Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #51

Life Cycles.

🎯 Your mission

Run the sim. Spot the pattern.

⚡ 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

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

Key Words

stem
pollination

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Life Cycles with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

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

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a food chain?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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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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