Lesson 36 of 84 · Plants and Animals
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleWhat Is an Ecosystem? (Part 2)
Plants and Animals.
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
Every species solves the same problem differently.
Mind = Blown
🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?
What You'll Learn
An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in an area working together.
Key Words
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Steps
Read about Plants and Animals with a partner or grown-up.
Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a food chain?
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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