Lesson 74 of 84 · Simple Ecosystems
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleThe Food Chain (Part 3)
Simple Ecosystems.
🎯 Your mission
Play with the model. Break it. Understand 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
A food chain shows who eats what. Grass is eaten by rabbits, and rabbits are eaten by foxes.
Key Words
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Steps
Look at the picture and read the labels.
Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.
Draw a picture of what you observe.
Share your results with a partner.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is camouflage?
Where you see this in real life
This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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