Lesson 36 of 84 · Habitats
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleSorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 2)
Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 2).
🎯 Your mission
Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.
⚡ The twist
Every species solves the same problem differently.
Mind = Blown
🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?
What You'll Learn
An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in an area working together.
Key Words
- survive
- predator
- prey
Steps
Read about Habitats with a partner or grown-up.
Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a food chain?
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.”
Next Smart Experiment
We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.
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