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Lesson 62 of 84 · Life Cycles

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Animal Life Cycles (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #62

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

All animals go through a life cycle: they are born, they grow, they have babies, and they eventually die. Different animals have different life cycles.

Key Words

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Steps

Step 1Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2Do

Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.

Step 3Observe

Use your senses to describe what you notice.

Step 4Record

Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is a life cycle?

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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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