Lesson 8 of 84 · Plants and Animals

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Butterflies Are Beautiful!

🧪Lab Brief #8

Plants and Animals.

🎯 Your mission

Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

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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

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Caterpillars turn into butterflies! They wrap up in a cocoon first.

Key Words

flower
leaf
root

Materials Needed

magnifying glass
paper towels
markers
tape
small pots

Safety First

Handle glass items carefully to avoid breakage.
Do not mix unknown chemicals together.
Tie back long hair before starting the experiment.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 — Do

Plant a seed in a cup of soil and give it water. Put it by a sunny window.

Step 3 — Observe

Use your eyes, ears, and hands to explore. What do you notice?

Step 4 — Record

Color a picture to show what happened.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Do birds have feathers?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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