Lesson 73 of 84 · Habitats
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleHow Plants Get Water (Part 3)
How Plants Get Water (Part 3).
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Plants need sunlight, water, air, and soil to grow. Each part of the plant has a job: roots drink water, stems hold the plant up, and leaves catch sunlight.
Key Words
- migrate
- adapt
Steps
Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?
Plant two seeds: put one in sunlight and one in a dark closet. Water both the same amount each day.
Look for something that changed. What is it?
Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do worms do for the soil?
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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