Marvelous Monday!! Do NOW: Do NOW: Prompt: IN NO LESS THAN 5 SENTENCES: EXPLAIN TO AN 8 TH GRADER IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT IS LIFE. o What are the characteristics of life? o What makes something alive?? Little Known Fact Little Known Fact A o Right Now EVERYONE HAS AN A

Congratulations on Completing Science Fair These Skills: o Science Lab Writing o Inquiry o Lab Procedures o Original Questions o Observations o 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!!????

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? 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 Nonliving things – o Don’t actively obtain or use energy o In its current state, never living o Example: Silk Flowers Dead Dead – o Don’t actively obtain or use energy o In it’s current state, was once living o Example: Dried Flower Petals

Characteristics of the Living organisms All living things are called organisms Organisms share these characteristics: o Organization o Reproduction o Development o Homeostasis o Adaptation

carbohydratesproteins 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 time o get bigger o 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 survive Example: 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 Metabolism o 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 fox 2.Cat nursing a kitten 3.Green feathers on a parrot 4.Bear hibernating 5.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.