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Lesson 35 of 84 · Life Cycles

Lesson30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

How Plants Make Food (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #35

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

Plants make their own food using sunlight. This is called photosynthesis. Animals cannot make their own food.

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1Read

Talk about what you already know about Life Cycles.

Step 2Do

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

Step 3Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 4Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do plants make from sunlight?

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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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