Science Lesson Plan

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Title Living and Non-Living things

• Science Lesson Plan
• By Reyna Villarreal

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Science Lesson Plan

• 1st graders age6-7 years old
• Purpose
• After reading, comparing, classifying and
  learning about living and non-living things
  students will be able to identify what is living
  and non-living in the world around them.
• Objectives
• Students will identify living and non-living
  things.
• Students will compare and classify living and
  non-living things.
• Students will learn characteristics of living and
  non-living things.

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Anticipatory Set

• Teacher asks students the difference between a
  table and student. She will ask, does the table
  move? And how about your friend? Does your friend
  eat or drinks water? And how about the table?
• Well, today were going to learn about living
  and non-living things. Here are few differences,
  living things are alive and active.They move,
  grow, drink, and eat. Some of the examples of
  living things around us are plants, animals and
  other human beings. Non-living things do not
  grow, do not move and nor eat or drink. Some of
  the examples of non-living things are table,
  chair ,bags, books etc.

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Input

• First of all, the teacher shows a video on living
  and non-living things. http//www.youtube.com/watc
  h?vcPiNTkCmmv0t39
• Then, the teachers will ask questions on the
  video.
• Why was the little boy crying?
• Why didnt the teddy bear eat chocolate?
• What living things did you see in the video?
• What non-living things did you see in the video?
• How do you know something is a living thing?
• How do you know something is a non-living thing?

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Input

• Now the teacher, sits the children on the carpet
  and them to look around and find living and
  non-living things. They complete the following
  chart.

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Modeling

• Students will come to the board and cross out
  non-living things and circle living things.

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Guided Practice

• The teacher will give the following worksheet to
  her pupils. She will read instructions and cut
  out all the pictures. Then she will get any
  picture and ask her students in which column it
  belongs. Then, she will glue it.
• The children will need scissors
• and glue stick.

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Independent Practice

• Students would work on the rest of the worksheet
  on their own.

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Assessment

• Students will be evaluated like this, the teacher
  will provide a quiz on the topic. Students need
  to write L for living things and N for non-living
  things.

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Closing/ Summary/ Review

• Students will play the following online games
  using the smart board.
• http//www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plant
  sanimals.html
• Finally, students will take their science journal
  for homework and find living and non-living
  things in their neighborhood. They will draw and
  classify.

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Sources

• http//www.instructorweb.com/lesson/livingthings.a
  sp
• http//www.makemegenius.com/science-videos/grade_2
  /living-and-nonliving-things-for-kindergarten--pre
  schoolers
• https//www.google.com.mx/search?qlivingandnonl
  ivingthingsworksheetrlz1C1ASAC_enMX466MX472es
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