Nature's Decomposers

Lab Brief #7

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

What you'll learn

Decomposers like mushrooms and bacteria break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.

Key words

habitat
The natural home where a plant or animal lives.
offspring
The young ones produced by plants, animals, or people.

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

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

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Question 1 of 3

What do plants make from sunlight?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What do worms do for the soil?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

Which animals hibernate?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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🌍 Where you see this in real life: Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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