Lesson 65 of 84 · What Living Things Need

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Plants and Their Parts (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #65

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

Plants make their own food using sunlight. This is called photosynthesis. Animals cannot make their own food.

Key Words

offspring
survive
predator

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Talk about what you already know about What Living Things Need.

Step 2 — Do

Sort animal picture cards into groups: animals with fur, feathers, or scales.

Step 3 — Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 4 — Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do plants make from sunlight?

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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