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Lesson 76 of 84 ยท Life Cycles

Simulationโญ 30 XP๐ŸŒฟ Wild Jungle

Forest Friends and Their Homes (Part 3)

Forest Friends and Their Homes (Part 3)
๐ŸงชLab Brief #76

Life Cycles.

๐ŸŽฏ Your mission

Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.

โšก The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

๐Ÿฆ  You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

Baby animals need their parents to survive. Birds feed their chicks, and cats carry their kittens.

Key Words

  • food chain
  • shelter
  • roots

Steps

Step 1 โ€” Read

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

Step 2 โ€” Do

Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.

Step 3 โ€” Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 โ€” Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do all living things need?

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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

โ€œTell me something you noticed about your own body today.โ€

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