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    This lesson plan is for a 5th grade science class on the topic of living things. The teacher will [1] have students identify and define the characteristics of living things, comparing different organisms. [2] Students will work in groups to differentiate living from non-living things based on movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, nutrition, reproduction and excretion. [3] The full class will then discuss each characteristic in detail with examples from plants and animals.

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    This lesson plan is for a 5th grade science class on the topic of living things. The teacher will [1] have students identify and define the characteristics of living things, comparing different organisms. [2] Students will work in groups to differentiate living from non-living things based on movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, nutrition, reproduction and excretion. [3] The full class will then discuss each characteristic in detail with examples from plants and animals.

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    This lesson plan is for a 5th grade science class on the topic of living things. The teacher will [1] have students identify and define the characteristics of living things, comparing different organisms. [2] Students will work in groups to differentiate living from non-living things based on movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, nutrition, reproduction and excretion. [3] The full class will then discuss each characteristic in detail with examples from plants and animals.

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    LESSON PLAN

    TEACHER’S NAME: ZAFER ELEN

    DATE: 21ST JUNE 2019

    GRADE: FIVE

    SUBJECT: SCIENCE

    TOPIC: LIVING THINGS

    SUB TOPIC: CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

    Lesson Objectives

     Identify and define the characteristics of living things.

     Compare the characteristics of different organisms.

    Materials

     Flashcards of organisms

     Worksheet

     Projector

    Introduction

     Tell students that all objects or things on Earth can be classified as living, or alive, or

    nonliving, or not alive.

     Ask the children what they understand by living and non-living things.
    Instructional Activities

    Divide the class into 4 groups for cooperative learning. Ask the groups to write down how they

    can differentiate living and non-living things.

    After the groups have finished their work, ask them to read aloud their answers and write their

    answers on the blackboard.

    Conclude by saying that the main differences are: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth,

    Nutrition, reproduction, Excretion.

    Discuss each of the characteristics;

    Movement

     Ask the students what they understand by movement

     Why do living things move?

     Ask the students how insects, birds etc move.

     How do plants move?

     How do animals move?

     Why do they move?

    Respiration

     What is respiration?

     Do plants also respire?

     How do they breathe?

     How do animals breathe?

    Sensitivity
     What do you understand by sensitivity?

     When you prick your hand what do you do?

     What happens when you feel very cold?

     What are the different sense organs?

     Do you think plants are also sensitive?

    Growth

     Ask the students what growth is

     Do all living things grow?

     How do plants grow?

     Give an example

     Do animals show growth?

    Nutrition

     What is nutrition?

     Why do living things need food?

     How do animals produce food?

     How do plants produce food?

     Why are their leaves green?

    Reproduction

     What is reproduction?

     Why do living things reproduce?

     How do plants reproduce?


     How do animals reproduce?

    Excretion

     What is excretion?

     Why do living things excrete?

     How do plants and animals excrete?

     What do they excrete?

     Do plants have any organs of excretion?

    Explain to the class that all living things should have all the characteristics to be classified as

    living.

    EVALUATION

    Hand in the evaluation sheets to the pupils and have them classify them as living and non-living
    Figure 1 Worksheet

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