This worksheet encourages students to get out in the natural world to look for examples of living, non-living, and once-living things. This activity can be used on its own, or in conjunction with presentation or larger living things unit available on Teach This.
Compare characteristics of living and non-living things and examine the differences between the life cycles of plants and animals
Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations
Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things
Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships
Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive
Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things
Different living things have different life cycles and depend on each other and the environment to survive
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter