“What is a Living Thing and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment?” is a unit designed to be taught prior to teaching
Students will be working as a community of scientists. Their job as a class will be to create a list of what all living things
What makes something living vs. non-living? Students build their knowledge of the characteristics of living things to categorize objects as living or non-living. What do
All living things sense and respond to their environments. Students work together to investigate how one living thing, a crayfish, responds when it senses shelter
Students will work in teams to do scientific observations of a living thing.
Students investigate how living things sense and respond to their environment. They will make predictions and identify materials needed for their investigation, and make a
Students investigate how living things sense and respond to their environment using the procedure they made. They will carry out their investigation and record the
Students develop an experimental plan to investigate the question how solar energy heats different earth materials (water and land). A container half filled with water
Students practice the process of doing investigative science through team investigations. They investigate two materials that weigh the same amount. The testable question: If I
In this lesson students will play a guessing game, observe land snails, and create a realistic drawing of a land snail. At the end of
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