Exploring Our World
Using your senses to learn about things.
Observing
These things can grow and reproduce.
living things
These things do not grow or breathe
Non-living things
This plant part makes food for the plant.
Leaves
This feature helps birds and insects to fly.
Wings
Putting things into groups.
Classifying
Name one example of a living thing.
A plant/Animal/Human
Name one example of a non-living thing.
Answer Varies.
This plant part absorbs water from the soil.
Roots
This animal feature helps fish move in water.
Fins
Working well with others.
Cooperation (teamwork)
One characteristic of all living things.
Movement
Reproduction
Growth
Respiration
Excretion
Nutrition
One difference between living and non-living things.
Answer varies.
(Living things grow and non-living things do not)
This plant part supports the plant and carries water.
Stem
This feature helps animals protect themselves.
Shells/horns/claws
Done to find answers in science.
An investigation or experiment.
This shows that plants are living even though they do not move from place to place.
growth or response to stimuli
Why is water considered non-living even though it is important to life?
because it does not grow, breathe, or reproduce
This plant feature helps protect seeds and spread them.
Fruit
This feature helps animals breathe on land.
Lungs
This attitude means recording what really happened, even if it is not what you expected.
Honesty
Explain one way living things depend on their environment.
They need food, water, air, or shelter
Name one way non-living things help living things.
Answer varies.
water helps plants grow / air helps animals breathe
Explain why flowers are important to plants.
They help plants make seeds, which grow into new plants
Explain why animals have different body coverings.
To help them survive in their environment.