Lesson Plan #: AELP-BIO0093
Living Or Non-living
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Submitted by:
Kelli Carfang
Email:
kmcst32+@pitt.edu
School/University/Affiliation:
Student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Date:
September 22, 1999
Grade Level(s):
Kindergarten, 1
Subject(s):
Duration:
One 45 minute session
Description:
In this lesson plan, the students will recognize the differences between living creatures and non-living objects.
Goals:
The students will classify different objects as being living or non-living.
Objectives:
The students will be able to:
a) name living things.
b) list why living things are living.
Materials:
-
a plant
-
a live insect in a jar
-
an artificial plant
Procedure:
- Introduce the lesson by describing what a living thing is.
- Invite the students to give some of their own examples of living things.
- Explain to the students what living things need to stay alive.
- Make a chart on the board of all the characteristics of living things.
- Pass a plant around the room and ask the students to tell if the plant is living or not and why.
- Do the same thing with all the living material.
- When the class comes to the artificial plant ask them what makes the artificial plant different
from the others.
- Make another chart on the board of characteristics of non-living things.
- Go over the chart all together.
Assessment:
- Have the students get into a group of three to four kids and have them brainstorm about living and
non living things.
- Give them five minutes to think up five examples of each.
- Have the groups come up to the front of the room and tell what they came up with.