which of the following are non living and living 1. plants
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Answer:
In this activity, students sort samples into living or non-living things.
What makes something a living thing? To be called a living thing, an item must have once eaten, breathed and reproduced. A dead animal or plant is considered a living thing even though it is not alive.
Our coastal temperate rainforest is full of living and non-living things which interact to create a complete and stable ecosystem. When one tree dies and falls over, it becomes a home and provides nutrients for other living things. We call a fallen log with new plants growing on it a nurse log.
Living components of a forest include:
plants (e.g. trees, ferns, mosses)
animals (e.g. mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians)
fungi
bacteria
Nonliving things in a forest include:
rocks
water and rain
sunlight
air
Objectives
Describe the basic needs of living things
Materials
Pictures or samples of living and non-living forest components
Key Questions
What does an animal need to survive?
What does a plant need to survive?
How are plant and animal needs different? The same?
Are plants and animals both living things? Discuss how you could tell.
What To Do
Divide the class into small groups.
Hand out a selection (pictures or samples) of non-living and living things to each group.
Ask each group to sort their samples into two piles: living and non-living. As a group, they should come up with some common characteristics for each group.
As a class, go over the sorting and come up with a class definition for living things and non-living things.
Teacher Tip: If you have time, take the students outside to see if they can find living and non-living things in their own school yard.
Extensions
Take the class on a forest walk. Have students record the living and non-living things they see, and then discuss the definitions they came up with to help them sort what they observed.
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