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Lesson 1 of 84 · Habitats

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What Living Things Need

🧪Lab Brief #1

What Living Things Need.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

Living things need food, water, air, and space to survive. Without these, they cannot live.

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1Read

Read about Habitats with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2Do

Plant two seeds: put one in sunlight and one in a dark closet. Water both the same amount each day.

Step 3Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do all living things need?

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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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