Lesson 64 of 84 · Habitats

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

What Do Plants Need? (Part 3)

🧪Lab Brief #64

What Do Plants Need? (Part 3).

🎯 Your mission

Run the experiment. Find out what really happens.

⚡ 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

Plants need water and sunlight to grow. Watch what happens when you water a seed every day!

Key Words

animal
plant

Materials Needed

zip-lock bags
labels
seeds
soil
cups

Safety First

Adult supervision recommended.
Do not taste any materials.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Listen carefully and repeat the new words about Habitats.

Step 2 — Do

Look at a flower and smell it. What colors do you see? Count the petals.

Step 3 — Observe

Did anything change? Point to what is different.

Step 4 — Record

Point to the things you used in the activity.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What comes out of a seed?

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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