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0. What is a Living Thing: Unit Overview (Lesson 0/5) |
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“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 the adopted FOSS curriculum on life sciences. In this unit students are
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1. What is a Living Thing Unit: What do Living Things have in Common? (Lesson 1/5) |
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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 have in common. They will use the list on another day to help them decide
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2. What is a Living Thing Unit: Living or Non-Living? (Lesson 2 of 5) |
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3. What is a living thing Unit: Introducing Cells (Lesson 3 of 5) |
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Students learn about what makes up a living thing and what do living things have in common while looking through magiscopes to observe cells and record their observations.
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4a. What is a living thing Unit:: Introducing the Process of Investigating Science Using Crayfish (Lesson 4a of 5) |
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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 in its environment.
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4b. What is a living thing Unit:: Introducing the Process of Investigative Science Using Worms (Lesson 4b of 5) |
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Students learn that living things sense and respond to changes in their environment. Students work together to investigate how one living thing, a worm, responds when it senses dampness and dryness in
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