Welcome

Hi boys and girls.  Welcome to our class blog on living and non-living things.  Each day you interact with living and non-living things in your environment.  This is a good opportunity for you to learn more about them.  So, let's get started.

SCIENCE

Tuesday 8th April, 2014

Science

Living and Non-living things

Good Morning!  How are you?  In today's lesson you are going to discover whether the things around you are living or non-living.   These are some examples below.

Now you are going to look at the characteristics of both living and non-living things and see how they are different.

characteristics of living things:

      All Living things need food and water to survive

      Must breathe air 

      Grow from small to big

      Move around (walk, run, jump, climb, twist, roll)

      Produces babies

characteristics of Non living things.

     Do not need food and water to survive

     Cannot breathe air

     Cannot Grow in size

     Cannot Move around

     Cannot Produce young

Now you are going to look at the video to learn more about living and non living things.

Click Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPiNTkCmmv0

Next we are going to do an activity to see if you can remember what are living and non-living things.

Activity Number 1 : Write each living and non-living things into its correct space on the table below.

 

 

Next

Activity Number 2: Sort the pictures into living and non-living things.

Now 

Activity Number 3: Put a tick next to the non-living things below.

 

Activity Number 4: Now you are going to play a game.

Instructions for game:

You are going spot eight living things in the following game.
Click Link below and let's begin !!!!

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantsanimals.html

Next 

Activity Number 5: See if you can find the non-living things on the crossword puzzle below.

Non-Living Things

P L W B C K B H N M K C R L E       
H C G O H C N O N T U I N R L 
R A B T S O Z I O G Y A B X B 
B R R T K Y F C O K E A I D A 
X L N L R E S A R E U U V G T 
K B A E E B R F Y N L B L P E 
E H B C C K B R K I F X E E Y 
C U C D K S T O N E R N W B R 
A I K T O B U D H Z C H J S W 
R S M N Z S O N O I Q X S A P 
G I E E Q S F A L B H C M M S 
D Q A G Y C D U R I F J V G O 
X K C H M D F K O D B B I R K 
P K N W C L L A U I S Q B S L 
X X M P M M Z P F J I T M K U 

Thank you for you participation and attention.