Lesson 66 of 84 · Plants

Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #66

Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 3).

🎯 Your mission

Push the limits. See what changes.

⚡ The twist

Every species solves the same problem differently.

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?

What You'll Learn

An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in an area working together.

Key Words

survive
predator
prey

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Plants with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a food chain?

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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