Lesson 9 of 10 · Plants

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Plants Make the Food Everything Else Eats

🧪Lab Brief #9

Plants Make the Food Everything Else Eats.

🎯 Your mission

Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

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Mind = Blown

🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Plants use sunlight to make their own food. Animals cannot do this, so every animal is eating a plant, or eating something that ate a plant. That is why plants are called producers.

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Materials Needed

picture cards
paper

Safety First

Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read the explanation above and note the two key terms before you start.

Step 2 — Do

Sort pictures of ten living things into producers and consumers. Then trace any one consumer back through the chain until you reach a plant.

Step 3 — Observe

Record what actually happened, including anything that did not match what you expected.

Step 4 — Record

Write a conclusion that answers the question this lesson opened with, and state your uncertainty.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Which living thing makes its own food?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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