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