Lesson 45 of 84 · Plants and Animals
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JunglePlants and Animals Help Each Other (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
Plants produce oxygen that animals need to breathe. Animals produce carbon dioxide that plants need to grow!
Key Words
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Steps
Talk about what you already know about Plants and Animals.
Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.
Compare what happened to what you predicted.
Tell the class one thing you learned today.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do bees get from flowers?
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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