Marvelous Monday!!• Do NOW:

Prompt: IN NO LESS THAN 5 SENTENCES:

EXPLAIN TO AN 8TH GRADER IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT IS LIFE.

o What are the characteristics of life?o What makes something alive??

• Little Known FactoRight Now EVERYONE HAS AN A

Congratulations on Completing Science

Fair• These Skills:

o Science Lab Writingo Inquiryo Lab Procedureso Original Questionso Observationso Research

• Will allow us to dig DEEPER into the SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS

• We’ve Got So much to Do:• Let’s GO!

Changes in the Room?:• Changes in the room:

o Leading up to something special • Hint Hint: Keep focused this week!!

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This Week At A Glance• Monday: What is life?• Tuesday: Penguins• Wednesday: Homeostasis• Thursday: Award Ceremony: Shorted classes• Friday: QUIZ

What characteristics do living creatures

have in common?

2007-2008

Properties of Life

List of Properties of Life?

• What do you think??• Participation points, remember we want to keep

our A’s!

How Do you Know its Alive?

• Nonliving things – oDon’t actively obtain or use energy o In its current state, never livingoExample: Silk Flowers

• Dead – oDon’t actively obtain or use energyo In it’s current state, was once livingoExample: Dried Flower Petals

Characteristics of the Living

• All living things are called organisms• Organisms share these characteristics:

o Organizationo Reproductiono Developmento Homeostasiso Adaptation

carbohydrates proteins

Living creatures are ORGANIZED

• All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as…o molecules

• proteins, fats, carbohydrates, nucleic acids

DNA

Living creatures are ORGANIZED

• All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as…o organelles & cells

• plant cells & animal cells

animal cell

plant cell

Living creatures are ORGANIZED

• All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as…o organs & organ systems

• respiratory, circulatory, digestive, etc.

Living creatures REPRODUCE

• Make the next generation

Living creatures GROW & DEVELOP

• Change over an individual’s life timeo get biggero mature

• so they can reproduce

Living creatures RESPOND

• Respond to internal changes o Homeostasis

• maintaining balanced conditions inside the body• Respond to external changes

Living creatures ADAPT

• Inherited structures or behavior• Allows organisms to respond to changes in

the environment and surviveExample:Tarsier: Primate • Large eyes allows it to see well in

the dark• Long fingers allows it to hold on

well to tree branches

Living creatures also use ENERGY

• Metabolismo all the reactions your body performs to make & use

energy• eating & digestion & elimination of waste• synthesis = building• cellular respiration = making energy

mitochondria

Identify the characteristic of life for

each example.1.Rabbit running from a

fox2.Cat nursing a kitten3.Green feathers on a

parrot4.Bear hibernating5.Tree grows fruit

Exit Ticket• Finish the Living Things

Anticipation Guide. • Fill in the Right side and put it

in your classes drawer on the way out of class.