Lesson 66 of 84 · Animals

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #66

Sorting Living and Nonliving Things (Part 3).

🎯 Your mission

Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.

⚡ The twist

Every species solves the same problem differently.

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?

What You'll Learn

An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in an area working together.

Key Words

survive
predator

Materials Needed

labels
seeds
soil

Safety First

Tie back long hair before starting the experiment.
Protect your work surface with newspaper or plastic.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Animals with a partner or grown-up.

Step 2 — Do

Draw the life cycle of a butterfly: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. Label each stage.

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 is a food chain?

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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