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Living Things: First Year Science

This science document provides an introduction to biology and the characteristics of living things, explaining that biology is the study of life and living things can be classified by their ability to nutrition, respiration, excretion, growth, reproduction, movement, and response. It also distinguishes between different types of organisms like plants, animals, fungi, and microbes, and discusses experiments students can do to investigate living things in their environment.

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Living Things: First Year Science

This science document provides an introduction to biology and the characteristics of living things, explaining that biology is the study of life and living things can be classified by their ability to nutrition, respiration, excretion, growth, reproduction, movement, and response. It also distinguishes between different types of organisms like plants, animals, fungi, and microbes, and discusses experiments students can do to investigate living things in their environment.

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First Year Science

Living Things
What is Biology?
Biology is the study of life
Organism
Organism: another word for a living thing

Plants Fish Humans Insects

Fungus Bacteria &


Animals
Viruses
How do we know something is living?
Characteristics of living things:

1. Nutrition 2. Respiration 3. Excretion

4. Growth 5. Reproduction 6. Movement

7. Response
Nutrition
Nutrition: the way an organism gets its food
Respiration
Respiration: the release of energy from food

Cells
Excretion
Excretion: the removal of waste from the
body

Examples of waste:
• Carbon Dioxide
• Sweat
• Urea
Reproduction
Reproduction: the formation of new
organisms
Response
Response: the ability of an organism to
gather information and respond to it
A way to remember…..

1. Nutrition
2. Respiration
3. Excretion
4. Growth
5. Reproduction
6. Movement
7. Response
Difference between animals & plants
Differ mainly in 3 ways

Movement

Food

Cell walls
Difference between animals & plants
ANIMALS PLANTS
Canmovefromplaceto Can’tmovefromplaceto
place place
•Canmovepartsofitself
veryslowly
Can’tmakeownfood Maketheirownfood
•Getfoodbyeating (photosynthesis)
Nocellwall Cellwall
Invertebrates and vertebrates
• Animals can be divided into groups called
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Invertebrates: animals that have no
backbone

Vertebrates: animals that have a


backbone
Vertebrate or invertebrate???
Snail Spider Shark

Earthworm
Frog Snake
Cat

Octopus
Invertebrates Vertebrates
Snail Shark

Spider
Frog Cat

Earthworm Octopus
Snake
Simple Key: how it works
Key: a set of questions to help
identify an unknown object

• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html#
• Page 6 in your book

IDENTIFY
Class exercise
1. LEAVES: Use key provided to identify them

2. SEEDS: Work with your partner and try to


make your own key
Seed names
Horse chestnut Beech nut Sycamore ‘helicopter’

Pine cone Acorn


Mandatory Activity 1
• Title: To investigate living things in their
environment
Rules for experiment work
1. Do not pick, collect or damage any living
thing in the area
2. Listen to teacher
3. Enjoy it!
What to do
1. Visit an area in school
2. Look for as many living things as we can
3. Use information to classify what you find as
– Living or non-living
– Plant or animal
– Vertebrate or invertebrate
4. Use picture keys to help identify
5. Ask teacher for help if you need (after trying
yourself first)
Example of what to do….
Organism Living? Plant Animal Vertebrate Invertebrate Notes

Worm Yes

Leafon No
ground

• If unsure….
– Make a sketch, take notes
– Ask teacher for help
What we need
• Clipboard
• Worksheet hand-outs
• Picture keys
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Suitable clothing and shoes
Writing up an experiment
1. TITLE & DATE • Name of experiment & date done

2. EQUIPMENT • List of materials

3. METHOD • What you did IN YOUR OWN WORDS

• What you found (in a TABLE on graph


4. RESULTS page)

5. CONCLUSION • What you learned (relate back to title)

6. SIGN & DATE • Date experiment was written up

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