Lesson 75 of 84 · Simple Ecosystems
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Simple Ecosystems.
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
Every species solves the same problem differently.
Mind = Blown
🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you watch: what do you think it'll do?
What You'll Learn
Plants produce oxygen that animals need to breathe. Animals produce carbon dioxide that plants need to grow!
Key Words
- adapt
- food chain
- shelter
Steps
Talk about what you already know about Simple Ecosystems.
Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.
Compare what happened to what you predicted.
Tell the class one thing you learned today.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do bees get from flowers?
Where you see this in real life
Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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