Lesson 36 of 84 · What Living Things Need

Simulation⭐ 30 XP

Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #36

What Living Things Need.

🎯 Your mission

Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.

⚡ 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

An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in an area working together.

Key Words

survive
predator

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about What Living Things Need with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.

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 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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