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Lesson 11 of 84 · Life Cycles

Lesson30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Trees Are Homes

🧪Lab Brief #11

Life Cycles.

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

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Mind = Blown

🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Trees provide homes for many animals: birds nest in branches, squirrels live in trunks, and insects live under bark.

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1Read

Read about Life Cycles with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2Do

Sort animal picture cards into groups: animals with fur, feathers, or scales.

Step 3Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Which is an insect?

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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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