Animals with Pouches

Lab Brief #13

🎯 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

Some animals carry their babies in pouches. Kangaroos and koalas are marsupials!

Key words

habitat
The natural home where a plant or animal lives.
offspring
The young ones produced by plants, animals, or people.

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

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Share your results with a partner.

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

What is a life cycle?

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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