Living and Non-living Things Lecture

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge, Understanding and Application

• Describe the characteristics of living things:     * Living things need air, water, and food to survive.     * Living things grow, respond, and reproduce.
• Recognise some broad groups of living things:     * Plants: Examples include flowering and non-flowering plants.     * Animals: Examples include birds, fish, insects, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.     * Fungi: Examples include mushroom and yeast.     * Bacteria.

Learning Outcomes: Skills and Processes

• Observe a variety of living and non-living things and infer differences between them.
• Classify living things into broad groups (plants and animals) based on similarities and differences of common observable characteristics.

Learning Outcomes: Ethics and Attitudes

• Show curiosity in exploring the surrounding living and non-living things.
• Value individual effort and teamwork.

Living and Non-living Things

• General Classification:     * Things around us can be classified into $2$ main groups:         * Living things.         * Non-living things.
• Breakdown of Living Things:     * Animals.     * Plants.     * Fungi.     * Bacteria.
• Breakdown of Non-living Things:     * Never alive.     * Once alive.