Lesson 15 of 84 · Life Cycles
Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleDesert Animals Stay Cool
Life Cycles.
🎯 Your mission
Run the experiment. Find out what really happens.
⚡ The twist
What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how does the body solve this problem?
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
Materials Needed
- paper towels
- markers
- tape
- small pots
- cotton balls
Safety First
- Clean up spills immediately to prevent slipping.
- Use materials only as directed in the experiment.
- Keep small objects away from young children.
Steps
Talk about what you already know about Life Cycles.
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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