introduction to living nonliving and clasification biology 7 2015

Living and Non living things

• Draw a table to categorise the following pictures into

• Living • Non living • Dead• Not sure?

What distinguishes living from non living ?

• Write a definition for living.

• Write a definition for non living.

• Write a defintion for dead

• Biology is the study of living things•  • • Non-living organisms were never alive (e.g.

plastic)• • Dead organisms once lived and were capable

of the life processes

What do the living things have in common?

MRS GREN• Living things (or organisms) carry out all the

processes of living things:• - movement• - reproduction• - sensitivity• - growth• - respiration• - excretion• - nutrition

Classification:putting things into groups

• Think of places that have things put into categories…….

• Supermarket

• Music store

• Library

• Classifying things in science is called?____________ hint: page 160

Read pages 196-199

• With your partner..Write a paragraph to answer the question

• What would shopping be like if we didn’t have things sorted into categories at the supermarket?

• List the problems that would occur.

• Why do we need classification?

Why do we need to classify things

• Classifying things helps us to identify what we are looking for.

• We group things according to similarities and differences eg 2 legs 4 legs 8 legs no legs

• Classifying things helps us to communicate the same things

Dichotomous key• What is THAT!!!

• Vid: Creating a dichotomous key

• Activity: 10 students

• Flow chart or key? See page 200• 6:2 I know what it is!

w/shttp://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/notes_taxonomy.html

Dichotomous keys vid

• http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/dichotomous_key_smilies.html

• Flow chart

Strengths and weaknesses in DK

• Page 201 • With you group • organise aset of features that make a key

work to develop a STRONG dichotomous key.

• Activities• Unit review 6:1