Lesson 62 of 84 · Plants

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The Life Cycle of a Plant (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #62

The Life Cycle of a Plant (Part 3).

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

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

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

All animals go through a life cycle: they are born, they grow, they have babies, and they eventually die. Different animals have different life cycles.

Key Words

habitat
life cycle

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 — Do

Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.

Step 3 — Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 4 — Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a life cycle?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

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For the dinner table

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

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