Lesson 4 of 7 · What Living Things Need

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Baby Animals Need Parents

🧪Lab Brief #4

What Living Things Need.

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

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Mind = Blown

🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.

What You'll Learn

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

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

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

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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Which animals hibernate?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This shows up in your everyday life more than you'd think.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Try one experiment in real life this week — even a tiny one.

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For the dinner table

“What's the most surprising thing you learned today?”

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