Lesson 82 of 84 · Plants and Animals
Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleScaly Reptiles (Part 3)
Plants and Animals.
🎯 Your mission
Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).
⚡ 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
Reptiles have scales and are cold-blooded. Snakes, lizards, and turtles are reptiles.
Key Words
Tap a word to see its definition.
Materials Needed
- soil
- cups
- water
Safety First
- Clean up spills immediately to prevent slipping.
- Use materials only as directed in the experiment.
Steps
Look at the new words. Can you say each one?
Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.
Use your senses to describe what you notice.
Write 1-2 sentences about what happened.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3Which animals hibernate?
Where you see this in real life
Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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