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Lesson: [Charcteristics of living things]

Duration: 45 minutes
Name : Reshma
Grade: 7 ( Science)
Instructional mode: constructive approach

Unit Overview
Main Idea (Claim) Summative Assessment
Mrs. Nerg Chapter test
Guiding Questions
What are the 7 characteristics of living
organism?
What are the characteristics that define
life?
Do living things have to move?
Objectives (know/understand/do/value)
Students will be able to identify 2
seven characteristics of living
things.
Students will know differentiate
between living and non-living things
and recognize that living things
have modifications according to
their habits and need.

Time Instructional Procedures and Strategies

7min Introduction:-
Introduce myself to students and tell them overview of what I am going to
teach them. (2min).
Ask questions about what are characteristics of living things to know their
basic understanding ( 2min)
Show short video about subject to recall and getting attention of students
(3min)

35min Development:-
Explain the seven characteristics of living things and its importance. (5min)
Movement
Reproduction
Sensitivity
Nutrition
Excretion
Respiration
Growth

Students will be doing worksheet paper where they need to identify things are
living or not.
Have students to read out their answer and discuss the answer. (5min)
Asking different questions related to subjects (5min)
Do living things have to move, why plants do not move their position?
Plants move their roots towards the water and towards the center
of the earth.
Why fire is not considered as living things? If no, then why?

Explain how to recognize it is alive? (3 min)

Utilize energy from other source to drive chemical reaction
Is capable of reproduction
Can undergo evolution.
Work sheet- students will be given a list of things in paper. They should work
in a pair to discuss an answer. Students will fill in the blanks from given
word bank of characteristics of living things. (7min).
3min eactions, 2) is capable of reproduction, and 3) can undergo evolution.
Closing:
Review ( 1Min)
Homework They should write yes for living things and no for non-living
things. (1min)

Closing (1Min)
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