Content:

• Living things are both similar to and different from each other and from nonliving things.

• Animals need air water, and food in order to live and thrive
  plants require air, water, nutrients, and light in order to live and thrive

• non-living things do not live and thrive

• non-living things can be human-created, or naturally occurring.

• living things grow, take in nutrients, breath, reproduce, eliminate waste and die

Writing---research report on animals
· description
· diet
· habitat
· anatomy
· prey/ predator relationships
· behavior
· adaptations for defense
Science and technology
· online research---enchantedlearning.com
Science in personal and social perspective
· responsible treatment of pets and animals
· endangered species

· human interaction with animals

Observe---animal characteristics for alike and different

Experiment---mealworm preferences

Hypothesizing---

 Identifying variables---developing a fair test

Collaboration---share supplies and materials to complete experiments

Observe living animals and plants and artifacts

Communicate---draw and label diagrams with precision and accuracy to share information

Classifying Living Things-Properties

Alive/ Not Alive/ From Something Alive

Vertebrates/ Invertebrates

Mammals/ Fish/ Birds/Reptiles/ Amphibians

Making a model---catapult

Measurement---seeds