Lesson 24 of 84 · Life Cycles
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleRoots, Stems, and Leaves
Life Cycles.
🎯 Your mission
Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Roots hold the plant in the ground and soak up water and nutrients from the soil.
Key Words
- insect
- mammal
Steps
Look at the picture and read the labels.
Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.
Draw a picture of what you observe.
Share your results with a partner.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3Which part of a plant takes in water?
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.”
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