Lesson 1 of 84 · Animals

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

What Living Things Need

🧪Lab Brief #1

What Living Things Need.

🎯 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.

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Mind = Blown

🌳 Trees can talk to each other through underground fungus networks.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Living things need food, water, air, and space to survive. Without these, they cannot live.

Key Words

habitat
life cycle

Materials Needed

tape
small pots
cotton balls
zip-lock bags
labels
seeds

Safety First

Protect your work surface with newspaper or plastic.
Adult supervision recommended.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Animals with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Plant two seeds: put one in sunlight and one in a dark closet. Water both the same amount each day.

Step 3 — Observe

Watch carefully. What happens?

Step 4 — Record

Draw and write about what you learned.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do all living things need?

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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