Lesson 31 of 84 · Life Cycles

Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

What Living Things Need (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #31

Life Cycles.

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

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

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Mind = Blown

🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

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

Key Words

habitat
life cycle

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Read about Life Cycles 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

This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

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For the dinner table

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

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