Living and Nonliving Things
This Life Science unit will explore Living and Nonliving things. The students will learn to distinguish between Living and Nonliving things and also compare them. The students will use the text, internet, experiments and supplementary materials during this unit. We will conduct an experiement comparing a meal worm and a rock. We will create a science word wall with the words "Living" and "Nonliving" and the students will place pictures of living and nonliving examples under the correct category. Each student will also create a growth chart to compare how fast and how much they have grown throughout the year. The students will use prior knowledge from our last unit discover how materials from our physical environment help living things meet their needs.
Essential Questions
1. What are Living things?
2. What are Nonliving things?
3. How can you tell if an object is Living or Nonliving?
4. How do materials from our physical environment help living things meet their needs?
Essential Questions
1. What are Living things?
2. What are Nonliving things?
3. How can you tell if an object is Living or Nonliving?
4. How do materials from our physical environment help living things meet their needs?
Topics:
- Definition of Living
- Definition of Nonliving
Subtopics:
Table of Contents
- Explain what living things need to grow
- Explain how the physical environment provides materials for living things to grow.
- "A Mealworm and a Rock" experiment
- Vocabulary words for word wall
- Growth Charts
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Content Standards Alignment
- Web of Information
- Text Readability Assessment
- Text Features
- Literature
- Reading/Writing Strategies
- Technology