Lesson 57 of 84 · Life Cycles

Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Splashing with Fish (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #57

Life Cycles.

🎯 Your mission

Run the sim. Spot the pattern.

⚡ The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

Butterflies have colorful wings. They fly from flower to flower.

Key Words

tail
paw

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Talk about Life Cycles with a grown-up. What do you already know?

Step 2 — Do

Sort pictures of living and non-living things into two piles.

Step 3 — Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 4 — Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Which is bigger: an elephant or a mouse?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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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

“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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