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LIFE

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:.

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LIFE

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  1. 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

  2. Active Listening Activity: • Pair up with someone in the class who you do not know well. • Share your answers to the questions, practicing listening. LIFE

  3. Who? When? LIFE How? What? Why? Where?

  4. 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

  5. Develop 10 questions that include the word life in it or any derivatives of the word life. For example: What is life?

  6. What is an active class discussion?

  7. Okay…let’s have an active class discussion!

  8. The Meaning of Life *Active * Reading Activity • Answer pre-reading def. • Read Title & Skim Article • While reading underline important information, jot down notes, ask questions and rephrase important information • Answer post-reading questions.

  9. 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*

  10. Link to answers Academic Link to answers Honors • The Meaning of Life Review • Active Reading Activity • Definitions • Reading Comprehension questions

  11. 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!

  12. How do Biologists determine if something is living?

  13. 8 Characteristics of Life on Earth • Living Things: • Individuals Grow and Develop • Made of cells • DNA • Use food for energy (metabolism)

  14. 5. Reproduce 6. Respond to Environment 7. Homeostasis 8. Die

  15. 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.

  16. I, Robot Worksheet

  17. Following Directions Activity: Why is it important to follow directions? Why is it important to define the world around us using the same words? Why is it important to be able to communicate your thoughts through writing?

  18. Following Directions Activity: 1.As you build something with the K’nex, create clear, detailed instructions for how you are building it (as if you were writing the instruction booklet) 2. Completely take apart what you have made. Leave the instructions and K’nex at your table. 3. Move to someone else’s lab table, and try to build what they have described 4. Let’s define what to call each type of piece.

  19. JQ: Is an Avatar living or non-living?

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