Lesson 51 of 84 · Spacetime
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🚀 StarbaseMigration: Animal Journeys (Part 2)
Spacetime.
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
The light you see now started its trip a long time ago.
Mind = Blown
🌌 If you could drive a car straight up at highway speed, you'd reach space in under an hour.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: how big does that look from here vs. from there?
What You'll Learn
Many animals migrate to find food, warmer weather, or safe places to have their young. Birds, whales, and monarch butterflies are famous for their long migration journeys.
Key Words
- food web
- adaptation
Steps
Study the diagram and label the parts you recognize.
Create a detailed food web for a local ecosystem. Include at least 8 organisms and use arrows to show energy flow from producers to top predators.
Use your senses (except taste) to describe what you notice.
Write a summary of your findings in 3-5 sentences.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is a habitat?
Where you see this in real life
GPS, weather forecasts, and the seasons all rely on this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find a constellation in the sky. Look it up. Tell someone its story.
For the dinner table
“If you could visit any planet, which would you pick and why?”
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