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1st Grade Living and Nonliving

April 9, 2020

1st Grade Science Living and NonLivingLesson: April 9, 2020

Learning Target: I can identify the difference between living and nonliving

things.

Background: This is a continuation lesson from Kindergarten.

● In Kindergarten, students learned to make observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

● In first grade, students will learn the difference between living and nonliving things and dive deeper into what those living things need to survive.

● In 2nd grade, students will observe how different amounts of water and light affect the growth of a plant.

Warm Up Activities:Click the links to watch the 2 videos below.

Who’s Alive? It’s Alive!

Practice #1:Which living thing does not belong?

How do you know?

Hint: think about where the animals live.

Practice #1:Which living thing does not belong?

How do you know?

Tigers are living, but they don’t live in water like the rest of these things!

Practice #2:Which living thing does not belong?

How do you know?

Hint: Where do you think most of these animals live?

Practice #2:Which living thing does not belong?

How do you know?These are animals that could be found on a farm. Elephants do not live on a farm.

Practice #3:

What does not belong?How do you know?

Hint: Think about what is living and what is not living.

Practice #3:

What does not belong?How do you know?

All of these can be found outside, but the cloud is not living!

Practice on your own

Watch the quick jellyfish video. What questions do you have about jellyfish?

Click the worksheet.

More Practice on your own:Investigate what seeds need to grow, and find out if a rock

will grow in the experiment on the next slide. Use this recording sheet to note your observations.

More Practice on your own:Watch the video of a bean seed.

What do you wonder?

Self Check: Go tell someone in your home your answers.

1. Was this lesson❏ easy❏ just right❏ hard

2. What do you predict will happen to the rock in the experiment?