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Lesson 34 of 84 · Habitats

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What Makes an Insect (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #34

What Makes an Insect (Part 2).

🎯 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

Insects have six legs, three body parts, and often have wings. Butterflies, ants, and beetles are all insects!

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Steps

Step 1Read

Look at the picture and read the labels.

Step 2Do

Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.

Step 3Observe

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 4Record

Share your results with a partner.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What happens to a tadpole?

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.

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