Baby Animals Need Parents

Lab Brief #4

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

What you'll learn

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

Key words

survive
To stay alive by getting food, water, and shelter.
bird
A warm-blooded animal with feathers, wings, and a beak that lays eggs.

Make a hypothesis first

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

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

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

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Question 1 of 3

Which animals hibernate?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What animal group has feathers?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What is a life cycle?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

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

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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