Lesson 68 of 84 · Simple Ecosystems
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleHow Seeds Travel (Part 3)
Simple Ecosystems.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Seeds travel in different ways: wind blows dandelion seeds, birds carry berries, and burrs stick to animal fur!
Key Words
- predator
- prey
- camouflage
Steps
Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?
Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.
Look for something that changed. What is it?
Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What does a caterpillar turn into?
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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