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Unit: Organisms
Grade: First
Recognize that animals (including humans) and plants are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, and
water.
Differentiate between living and nonliving things. Group both living and nonliving things according to the
characteristics that they share.
Essential
Questions:
How are all living things the same and how are they
different?
Content Knowledge:
Enduring Understandings/Take-Aways:
Skills:
I can:
Materials
Crayons
Chart paper
Add to the drawing what you think the living thing needs to live and be healthy.
Complete the sentences at the bottom of the drawing (I drew a.I think it needs..). Offer to list vocabulary words
on board as needed.
needs to live.
Plant or Animal? (5 minutes)
Display a piece of chart paper with two columns: Plant, Animal.
Tell students that we are going to list the living things that students have drawn on the chart paper. If a student names an
organism that is a plant, we will make tree branches with our arms (model and practice with the students). If a student names
an organism that is an animal we will make our hands look like paws and pant with our mouths (model and practice with
students). Call on students and write responses on chart paper. Continue to call on students until all new responses have
been given. Discuss any responses that make students unclear about whether it is an animal or a plant.
Wrap Up (5 minutes)
Have students put their work into their Science Folders. We will return to our pictures at the end of our unit so that we can
see how much we have learned since today. For our next science lesson, we will be discovering how we can use our senses
to learn more about organisms and how we can record the information we learn.