Lesson 52 of 84 · Plants and Animals

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Big Trees and Tiny Seeds (Part 2)

🧪Lab Brief #52

Plants and Animals.

🎯 Your mission

Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).

⚡ The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

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Mind = Blown

🐙 An octopus has 9 brains and 3 hearts.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

Trees give us shade, fruit, and clean air. Hug a tree today!

Key Words

fish
fur

Materials Needed

small pots
cotton balls
zip-lock bags
labels
seeds
soil

Safety First

Handle glass items carefully to avoid breakage.
Do not mix unknown chemicals together.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Talk about Plants and Animals with a grown-up. What do you already know?

Step 2 — Do

Sort pictures of living and non-living things into two piles.

Step 3 — Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 4 — Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What do caterpillars become?

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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