Lesson 46 of 84 · Habitats
Simulation⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleForest Friends and Their Homes (Part 2)
Forest Friends and Their Homes (Part 2).
🎯 Your mission
Run the sim. Spot the pattern.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
What You'll Learn
Baby animals need their parents to survive. Birds feed their chicks, and cats carry their kittens.
Key Words
- food chain
- shelter
- roots
Steps
Read about Habitats with a partner or grown-up.
Observe a plant for one week. Measure it each day and write down how tall it is.
Watch carefully. What happens?
Draw and write about what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do all living things need?
Where you see this in real life
This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life 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.”
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