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Do Now: Answer the following questions, and take out your homework. Is Facebook or Twitter a better social networking site? If you could bring only 3 things to a deserted island, what would they be? What is the worst injury you’ve ever had?. LIFE. Active Listening Activity:. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
LIFE
1.Is Facebook or Twitter a better social networking site?
2.If you could bring only 3 things to a deserted island, what would they be?
3.What is the worst injury you’ve ever had?
Do Now: Answer the following
questions, and take out your homework.
LIFE
1.Pair up with someone in the class who you do not know well.
2.Share your answers to the questions, practicing listening.
Active Listening Activity:
LIFE
Who?
Where?
How?
Why?
When?
What?
Objectives:
-Define what it means to be living through an active class discussion
-Identify the characteristics of living organisms on Earth
- Recognize the importance of observations and repeated testing in science
Develop 10 questions that
include the word life in it or any
derivatives of the word life.
For example:What is life?
What is an active class discussion?
Okay…let’s have an active
class discussion!
The Meaning of Life *Active * Reading
Activity
1.Answer pre-reading def.
2.Read Title & Skim Article
3.While reading underline important information, jot down notes, ask questions and rephrase important information
4.Answer post-reading questions.
Journal Question: Think of two or three strange organisms (very
different from one another). Then, based upon the organisms, come up
with a list of characteristics that they all have in common that make
them living.*don’t have to be animals*
Link to answers Academi
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The Meaning of Life Review
Active Reading Activity
1.Definitions
2.Reading Comprehension questions
Link to answers Honors
Biology (Bio = life; -logy = study of)Biology is the study of life!
Biologist (Bio = life; -logist = someone who studies)
Biologist is someone who studies life!
How do Biologists determine if something is living?
8 Characteristics of Life on Earth8 Characteristics of Life on Earth
Living Things: 1.Individuals Grow and Develop
2.Made of cells
3.DNA
4.Use food for energy (metabolism)
5. Reproduce
6. Respond to Environment
7. Homeostasis
8. Die
1. Watch the following video, and determine if the creatures are living or nonliving, using your list of criteria for living organisms
2. Explain which features they share with living creatures, and which make them nonliving.
I, Robot Worksheet
Following Directions Following Directions Activity:Activity:
Why is it important to follow Why is it important to follow directions?directions?
Why is it important to define the Why is it important to define the world around us using the same world around us using the same
words?words?
Why is it important to be able to Why is it important to be able to communicate your thoughts through communicate your thoughts through
writing?writing?
Following Directions Following Directions Activity:Activity:
1.As you build something with the 1.As you build something with the K’nex, create clear, detailed K’nex, create clear, detailed
instructions for how you are building instructions for how you are building it (as if you were writing the it (as if you were writing the
instruction booklet)instruction booklet)2. Completely take apart what you 2. Completely take apart what you have made. Leave the instructions have made. Leave the instructions
and K’nex at your table.and K’nex at your table.3. Move to someone else’s lab table, 3. Move to someone else’s lab table,
and try to build what they have and try to build what they have describeddescribed
4. Let’s define what to call each type 4. Let’s define what to call each type of piece.of piece.
