Lesson 46 of 84 · Simple Ecosystems
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleBaby Animals Need Parents (Part 2)
Simple Ecosystems.
🎯 Your mission
Run the sim. Spot the pattern.
⚡ The twist
Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.
Mind = Blown
🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?
What You'll Learn
Baby animals need their parents to survive. Birds feed their chicks, and cats carry their kittens.
Key Words
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Steps
Read about Simple Ecosystems with a partner or grown-up.
Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do all living things need?
Where you see this in real life
Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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