Lesson 16 of 84 · Plants and Animals
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleForest Friends and Their Homes
Plants and Animals.
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.
Mind = Blown
🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?
What You'll Learn
Baby animals need their parents to survive. Birds feed their chicks, and cats carry their kittens.
Key Words
- food chain
- shelter
Steps
Read about Plants and Animals with a partner or grown-up.
Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do all living things need?
Where you see this in real life
This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life 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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