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What happens when a living thing dies? After reading a paragraph of background knowledge on the life cycle of bugs, third and fourth graders work through four clues to figure out which bug is which. When they finish, they can study the ways an apple core decomposes to reinforce the concepts of microbes and bacteria.

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deductive reasoning, bacteria, bugs, microbes

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bacteria, bugs, deductive reasoning, microbes, science experiments, insects, observing bugs, science
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3rd - 4th
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Science
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