You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Living things poem
- MRS NERG explanation sheet
- MRS NERG PowerPoint
Additional Resources
- Large sheets of paper (some for rough work, some for posters)
A living thing?
Science Year 4
This unit is part of
Year 4 Science Name That Living Thing!
Objectives
Become an expert in the 7 characteristics of a living thing. Make a poster and explain life processes to younger children. Sort living things in a variety of ways.
Science Objectives
i) Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
ii) Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.
Working Scientifically
- Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
- Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand the characteristics of a living thing and to begin to consider that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
Activities
- Understand the 7 characteristics of a living thing.
- Explain one of the characteristics in more detail to someone else.
- Discuss which living things they would expect to find in their local environment.
- Consider which living things they would definitely not find locally and why.
- Begin to understand that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
- Ask relevant questions about living things and their habitats.
Investigation - sorting, classifying and idendifying
Ask relevant questions about living things and their habitats and begin to group them.
Vocabulary
Alive, dead, never been alive, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth, habitat, local