April 2025

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Academic Standards

Reading Objective:

Students will recognize that the silver arrowreed plant tricks the dung beetle into dispersing its seeds, which mimic antelope dung.

 

Reading Level:

Lexile: 510L; GRL: L

 

Next Generation Science Standards:

2-LSS2-1: What plants need to grow

2-LSS2-2: The function of animals in dispersing a plant’s seeds

 

Vocabulary:

dung, disperse, mimicry