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Lesson 35 of 84 ยท Life Cycles

Lessonโญ 30 XP๐ŸŒฟ Wild Jungle

Plants and Their Parts (Part 2)

๐ŸงชLab Brief #35

Life Cycles.

๐ŸŽฏ Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

โšก The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things โ€” find the rule they break.

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Mind = Blown

๐ŸŒณ 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

  • offspring
  • survive
  • predator

Steps

Step 1 โ€” Read

Talk about what you already know about Life Cycles.

Step 2 โ€” Do

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

Step 3 โ€” Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 4 โ€” Record

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

โ€œTell me something you noticed about your own body today.โ€

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