Lesson 58 of 84 · What Living Things Need

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How Animals Communicate (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #58

What Living Things Need.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ 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

Migration is when animals travel long distances to find food or warmer weather. Birds often migrate south in winter.

Key Words

amphibian
bird

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?

Step 2 — Do

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

Step 3 — Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 — Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do worms do for the soil?

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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We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

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