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📖 How Kidneys Filter Blood

Kidneys receive a large supply of blood and remove wastes and excess water. Tiny filtering units called nephrons separate useful substances from wastes. Needed water and molecules can be returned to the blood. Remaining fluid becomes urine and leaves the kidneys.

1. What key idea begins the explanation?

 

2. What mechanism or supporting detail is described?

 

3. What additional evidence or effect is given?

 

4. How does the final detail deepen the explanation?

 

✏️ Writing

Write 1–2 developed paragraphs explaining how kidneys filter blood. Use evidence and cause-and-effect reasoning.

➕ Math

1. 1/4 + 1/4 = ______
2. 3/4 − 1/4 = ______
3. Write an equivalent fraction for 2/3: ______
4. Which is greater: 3/5 or 3/4? Explain: __________________

🎨 Color & Create

Create a labeled model or diagram that explains how kidneys filter blood.

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📖 Reading Answers

  1. Kidneys receive a large supply of blood and remove wastes and excess water.
  2. Tiny filtering units called nephrons separate useful substances from wastes.
  3. Needed water and molecules can be returned to the blood.
  4. Remaining fluid becomes urine and leaves the kidneys.

➕ Math Answers

  1. 2/4
  2. 2/4
  3. Examples: 4/6, 6/9, 8/12
  4. 3/4, because 0.75 > 0.6

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