Lesson 2 of 84 · Plants and Animals
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleThe Life Cycle of a Plant
Plants and Animals.
🎯 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
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
- habitat
- life cycle
- offspring
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a life cycle?
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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