Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Explore outside, and through observation, the differences between things that are living, dead, and have never been alive.
• Discuss the features of those things that are living, dead and have never been alive.
• Find, classify and label specimens into categories.
• Engage in further discussion and thought around these questions: A robot can move, so why is it not alive? If a robot magically came to life, how could we test to make sure this were true?

Activities

1. Understand the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
2. Understand the key features of things that are living, as opposed to dead.
3. Be able to categorise specimens according to their features.

Investigation - exploring, sorting, classifying and identifying, problem solving
Explore outside, and through observation, the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
Find specimens and explain how they know they are alive or otherwise.

Vocabulary
Living, dead, never been alive, categories, classification, needs air, feeds, grows, reproduces, gets rid of waste.