Lesson 34 of 84 · Exploring Nature

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What Do Plants Need? (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #34

Exploring Nature.

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

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Mind = Blown

🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.

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Make a hypothesis first

Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.

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

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Listen carefully and repeat the new words about Exploring Nature.

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 shows up in your everyday life more than you'd think.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Try one experiment in real life this week — even a tiny one.

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For the dinner table

“What's the most surprising thing you learned today?”

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We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

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