1. FIRST FIVE!
What Is Life?
Ryan wants to see if flies like honey or vinegar more. He puts out two bowls: one of honey, one of vinegar. Then, he counts how many flies land on each bowl.
What is a strong hypothesis Ryan could have made?
What is the independent variable (cause)?
What is the dependent variable (effect)?
What is at least two variables that should stay constant?

2. Objectives By the end of today, we can…
Differentiate between things that are living and not living

3. Agenda Catalyst Hypothesis Review IT IZZZ ALIVVVEEEEEE! …or is it?
Al Gore
Ok, so do I know what is alive?
EQ HOMEWORK!

4. Hypothesis Review
Key Point Review: Scientists make hypotheses to answer questions they have about the world.
Educated = there’s a reason you guess what you guess.
Use the word “because”
Testable = there’s a way to prove it right or wrong.

5. Why were lights put on the Crescent City Connection?
If Nicki Minaj is on a track, will it sell more copies?
What would happen if this little girl sneezed on me?

6. Set-Up To the left of the margin, label the column OBJECT
Fold your paper in half
Left half: Label it HYPOTHESIS BEFORE LESSON
Right half: Label it AFTER LESSON
What is life? January 18
Object
Hypothesis Before Lesson
After Lesson

7. Is it alive? Each group will receive an object Directions
Write down what your object is.
Question: Is the object ALIVE or NOT ALIVE?
Write a STRONG HYPOTHESIS in the Before Lesson column ONLY.
We will switch objects after 2 minutes.
Direct one group to each lab bench.
After students fill out the worksheet, have them move back to desks. A little bit more note-taking is necessary in order to confirm if their hypotheses are correct or not.

8. What is life? Object Hypothesis Before Lesson After Lesson PENCIL
This object is NOT alive because it does not breathe oxygen.

9. What Is Life?
How can you tell if something is alive?
How can you tell if something is not alive?
Think really hard about this. For example: clouds move… but are they alive?

10. Is it alive? Directions Write down what your object is.
Question: Is the object ALIVE or NOT ALIVE?
Write a GOOD HYPOTHESIS in the Before Lesson column ONLY.
We will switch objects after 2 minutes. 10

11. Living or Non-living Biology is the study of life.
Therefore, we need to decide exactly what things are living and what are not.
Organism: Living thing
All living things have ALL the characteristics of life.
MS. S! WHAT ARE THEY?!
This is important because students will immediately be like, well this thing has this characteristic and this thing has this characteristic.
Define characteristic: a feature or quality that is typical of something

12. is missing even ONE characteristic, it is
Glad you asked!
Key Point #1: There are six characteristics that all living organisms have in common
Metabolism
Reproduction
Growth
Organization
Response
Evolution
If an organism
is missing even ONE characteristic, it is
NOT ALIVE.

13. Metabolism Reproduction Growth Organization Response Evolution
GOTTA HAVE ‘EM ALL!
Metabolism
Reproduction
Growth
Organization
Response
Evolution
Make sure they know who he is.

14. Metabolism
Metabolism: Process how living things gather and use ENERGY.
Metabolism turns food into energy.
All living organisms need food to do things (moving, building muscle, exercise, getting more food, rapping, dancing, shopping, etc.)
This is probably the hardest one for kids. Emphasize ENERGY.

15. Reproduction All living things have the capacity to reproduce.
Reproduce = make more organisms like itself
Reproduction happens at all levels.
Human reproduction = have sex, make babies
Cellular reproduction = every cell inside your body ALSO makes baby cells

16. Growth All living things change as they get older.
Doesn’t necessary mean getting bigger, but that is usually what happens.
Examples
Humans start off as babies
Frogs start off as tadpoles
Pine trees start off as pine cones.

17. Organization All living things are highly organized. Analogy
We will start studying this in more detail tomorrow, when we begin to talk about the cell.
All of a human’s body parts are made up a certain way. A plant’s leaves and stem fit together in a predictable way.
Analogy
Bedrooms are highly organized. Has a bed, sheets, dresser. Doesn’t have a toilet. Without this organization, it wouldn’t be a bedroom!
All living things are made of cells: cell theory. Tomorrow’s lesson. This slide is about structure/function

18. Response All living things respond to their environment.
Whatever is going on around a living thing, the organism can change to deal with it.
Examples:
Animals move towards warmer places when it’s cold outside.
Plants grow their roots towards water.
Ms. S fusses when you don’t do your class work.

19. Evolution
All living things have a universal genetic code (DNA) that determine characteristics about them
Example: how many arms you have
Over time, DNA can evolve, or change for the better.

20. LIGHTNING PRACTICE ROUND!

21. Where on your body are cells?

33. Let’s go back
Take 7 minutes to go back over your work and fill in the “After Lesson” column.
Make sure to use MR. GORE, and EXPLAIN your answer.
Remember: for something to be alive, it has to display ALL of the characteristics of life.

34. Exit Question Explain why is everyone in this class living.
What does MR. GORE stand for? Explain what at least THREE of the letters stand for.
HOMEWORK: Choose five living items. For each one, EXPLAIN how you know they are living. Choose two non-living items and explain how you know each is not living.