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Lesson 68 of 84 ยท Plants and Animals

Lessonโญ 30 XP๐ŸŒฟ Wild Jungle

How Seeds Travel (Part 3)

๐ŸงชLab Brief #68

Plants and Animals.

๐ŸŽฏ Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

โšก The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

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Mind = Blown

๐Ÿฆ  You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

Seeds travel in different ways: wind blows dandelion seeds, birds carry berries, and burrs stick to animal fur!

Key Words

  • predator
  • prey

Steps

Step 1 โ€” Read

Read the introduction. What is this lesson about?

Step 2 โ€” Do

Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.

Step 3 โ€” Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 โ€” Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What does a caterpillar turn into?

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

โ€œTell me something you noticed about your own body today.โ€

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