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Maria sees an elephant eating.
She wonders about ways elephants can use their trunks.
Help her learn.

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What are some internal and external structures of elephants?

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What are some ways that elephants use their trunks?

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How do trunks help elephants to survive?
How might other elephant structures help them survive?

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Build an elephant with a moveable trunk.
Show Maria ways the elephant uses its trunk to survive.

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Program your model. Show how the elephant uses its trunk to reach for food. Show how it can make elephant sounds.

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Use your model to explain how an elephant’s trunk can reach high tree branches for food.
How does this help the elephant grow?

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Use your model to explain how an elephant can make a loud sound with its trunk.
How does this help it communicate?

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Think of an internal structure.
Add new elements to the elephant model that stand for it.

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Program the model.
Show how elephants use this structure to survive.
Think about lungs, a stomach or another idea.

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Great job!