Cover Your Sneeze!

Lab Brief #5

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

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

What you'll learn

When you sneeze, your body is pushing out germs. Cover your nose with your elbow!

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Point to your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and hands. Name each one.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Look closely! What do you see?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Draw a picture of what you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

What should you cover your sneeze with?

Question 2 of 3

What does a sneeze push out of your body?

Question 3 of 3

Why do we cover a sneeze?

Mind = blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it 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.”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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