FIRST FIVE Silently on a separate piece of paper answer the following: 1.What is your preferred method of note-taking? 2.Do you find it beneficial? 3.Have you ever used an interactive notebook? 4.If you have, did you find it beneficial? If you have not, what do you think the benefits are? 5.What is your preferred way to study and how often does it work?

ANNOUNCEMENTS Past Due HW: Lab Safety Contract Syllabus Contract Egg Hatching Lab Packet

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

As you watch the following video, write down notes that help you answer the following questions: What are the traits of life? What are the behaviors of something that is living? What is different between non-life and life? What is missing when something is not living?

Ted Talk with Martin Hanczyc

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS Share out… What are the traits of life? What are the behaviors of something that is living? What is different between non-life and life? What is missing when something is not living?

MATCHING GAME With a partner match a characteristic with its proper definition On the blank cards write down an example of when you would see that characteristic

SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS Nutrition Excretion Respiration Sensitivity Reproduction Growth Movement

NUTRITION

Taking in, absorbing, and using nutrients which contain raw materials or energy for growth and tissue repair Nutrients: Organic substances molecules containing Carbon, Hydrogen, and often Oxygen Mineral Ions usually metal ions

EXCRETION

Removal from organisms of toxic materials, the waste products of metabolism, and substances in excess of requirements Metabolism: chemical reactions in cells

RESPIRATION

The chemical reactions that break down nutrient molecules in living cells to release energy

SENSITIVITY

The ability to detect or sense changes in the environment (stimuli) and to make responses

REPRODUCTION

The processes that make more of the same kind of organism

GROWTH

A permanent increase in size and dry mass by an increase in cell number or cell size or both

MOVEMENT

An action by an organism or part of an organism causing a change of position or place Includes movement within cells

LIVING THINGS… display the characteristics of life within the unit of life: the cell

CELL THEORY

POSTULATES OF CELL THEORY 1.All living organisms are composed of one or more cells. 2.The cell is the basic unit of structure and function of living organisms. 3.Cells arise from pre-existing cells through cell division.

CLASSWORK Begin Characteristics of Living Things Homework Due Thursday (Maroon classes) or Friday (Gold classes)