Formal Observation Freebie

By: Jessica Berggren

Tales of a First Grade Teacher

Living and

Non-living

Things

By: Jessica Berggren

Formal Lesson Plan-

Science Essential Question: What are living and nonliving things?

Standards:

SC.1.L.14.1 Make observations of living things and their environment using the five senses.

SC.1.L.14.3 Differentiate between living and nonliving things.

Vocabulary:

Living Things: people, animals and plants, need food, air and water. They grow and change.

Nonliving things: do not need food, air, and water, do not grow and change

Environment: all the living things and nonliving things in a place

Reproduce: make new living things like themselves

Introduction/Review: We have been learning about what living things and nonliving things are.

Today we are going to see how well we can identify living and nonliving things.

Let�s take a look at our Living and Nonliving flap books.

What do all living things need? (food, air, water)

What are some examples of living things? (people, animals, plants)

How are nonliving things different? (They do not need food, air or water, they do not grow, they do not change)

Practice: (8-10 minutes)

Hold up a stuffed animal bear. Ask the class if it is living or nonliving. How do you know?

Now pass out different items (photographs, plants, stuffed animals) to each team. Students will work as a team to decide if it is living or nonliving and prepare to share with the class how they know if it is living or nonliving.

Anchor Chart will be set-up on the board. When teams are ready, they will bring their item up and place it under the correct heading (living or nonliving)

Scavenger Hunt: (5-10 minutes) Materials: clipboards, pencils, pictures hung up around the room

I have placed pictures of different items around the room. You will go on a scavenger hunt to see which items are living and which are non-living. If you find a picture, mark down if it is living or nonliving on your chart.

Ring bell, when students should return to their seats. Go over the list of items in the scavenger hunt. Living or nonliving choral response.

Individual Work: (10 minutes)

Students will be given a sort. Students will cut out cards and paste under living or non-living.

At the bottom of the sort they will write what they know about living and nonliving things.

Conclusion: (3-5 minutes)

Before leaving for Resource� Students will be given an exit ticket. They will write down a fact they have learned and a question they may still have about the topic.

Page 3: scavenger hunt page (students will use clipboards to hold)

Page 4: cut and paste onto flap book

Page 5-7 cards for scavenger hunt. Page 7 labels for Anchor chart

Page 8-Sort activity mat

Page 9- sort cards

Page 10- Exit tickets

Page 11 -12 Living and Nonliving labels for outside of flap book

Use a 12 x 18 piece of construction paper. Fold over ends like this. Glue on labels from pp.11-12

L

i

v

i

n

g

Nonliv

ing

Glue

scavenger

hunt here

Glue

living

things

list

here

Glue

non-

living

things

list

here

Living and Nonliving Things

Scavenger Hunt

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

9 10

Living

Things

1. ______________

______________

2. ___________

______________

3. ___________

______________

4. ___________

______________

5. ___________

______________

Nonliving

Things

1. ______________

______________

2. ____________

_____________

3. ____________

_____________

4. ____________

_____________

5. ____________

_____________

1

flower

3

girl

2

gloves

4

puddle

5

frog

6

pencil

7

flamingos

8

snowmen

9

fish

10

donut

L

iv

in

g a

nd N

onliv

ing T

hin

gs sort b

y:__________________

Li

vi

ng

N

onliv

ing

Cut out and sort the cards. Glue under living or nonliving

Living and

Nonliving Things

Name:_____________

I learned ________________

__________________________

__________________________

I want to know _________

__________________________

__________________________

__________________________

__

Living and

Nonliving Things

Name:_____________

I learned ________________

__________________________

__________________________

I want to know _________

__________________________

__________________________

__________________________

__

Living and

Nonliving Things

Name:______________

I learned ________________

__________________________

__________________________

I want to know _________

__________________________

__________________________

__________________________

__

Living and

Nonliving Things

Name:_____________

I learned ________________

__________________________

__________________________

I want to know _________

__________________________

__________________________

__________________________

__

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your classroom.

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