Trees Are Homes

Lab Brief #7

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

What you'll learn

Trees provide homes for many animals: birds nest in branches, squirrels live in trunks, and insects live under bark.

Key words

insect
A small animal with six legs and a body in three parts.
bird
A warm-blooded animal with feathers, wings, and a beak that lays eggs.

Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

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

Which animals hibernate?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What animal group has feathers?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

Which is an insect?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

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🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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