Lesson 1 of 10 · Plants
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleHow Plants Make Food
How Plants Make Food.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Plants make their own food using sunlight. This is called photosynthesis. Animals cannot make their own food.
Key Words
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Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a habitat?
Where you see this in real life
This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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How Plants Make Food
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
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