Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Know that plants and animals are categorised as living things, that some things were once alive and others have never been alive.
- Understand and name the 7 characteristics of living things.
Activities
- Learn about the 7 life processes that characterise living things (Yr3&4).
- Make a double page of lift-up flaps (the first page of a popup book on living things) with one flap for each life process (Yr3&4).
- Match the name of each life process to a description of it (Yr3) or write a description for each life process (Yr4).
- Play an active team game to reinforce the scientific concepts and vocabulary (Yr3&4).
Investigation - problem solving, classifying and identifying
Everyone loves popup books! Your task is to produce one of your own called The World of Living Things. Explore 7 Life Processes. Learn Mrs Nerg.
Year 3 - Create 7 lift up flaps for MRS NERG, sort and match the 7 life processes.
Year 4 - Create 7 lift up flaps for MRS NERG and using prompts explain each beneath the flap.
Vocabulary
Life processes, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth, living things, oxygen, energy, waste products, senses, environment