How Plants Make Food

Lab Brief #2

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

What you'll learn

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

Key words

food chain
The path showing who eats whom to pass energy along.

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

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

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Question 1 of 3

What do plants make from sunlight?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What is a habitat?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What is a food chain?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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