Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand the characteristics of a living thing and to begin to consider that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.

Activities

1. Understand the 7 characteristics of a living thing.
2. Explain one of the characteristics in more detail to someone else.
3. Discuss which living things they would expect to find in their local environment.
4. Consider which living things they would definitely not find locally and why.
5. Begin to understand that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
6. Ask relevant questions about living things and their habitats.

Investigation - sorting, classifying and idendifying
Ask relevant questions about living things and their habitats and begin to group them.

Vocabulary
Alive, dead, never been alive, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth, habitat, local