1. Unit 1 Evolution Section 1 What is a Living Thing?
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2. Units in Evolution What is a Living Thing? Vocabulary
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Evolution
Evolution of Populations
Artificial Selection
Activities and Labs
Units in Evolution

3. Essential Questions/ Big Ideas
What are organisms? How do you define a living thing?
What is evolution?
Who was Charles Darwin? How did his theory of Natural Selection impact the way we think about evolution?
What are adaptations and how can they impact a species’ survival?
What is artificial selection?
How can we use phenotypes to make predictions about offspring?
Essential Questions/ Big Ideas

4. Standards
SC.912.L.15.8 Describe the scientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.
SC.912.L.15.In.3 Identify that there are scientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.
SC.912.L.15.Su.3 Recognize that there are scientific explanations of how life began.
SC.912.L.15.Pa.1 Recognize that plants and animals change as they age.

5. Brainstorm and think of 5 things that are living and 5 things that are not living…
Things which are living
Things which are non-living

7. Sort these pictures
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This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

8. Is it Alive?

9. There are 7 Characteristic of Living Things
Are made of cells
Grow and develop
Reproduce
Are made of DNA
Require energy
Respond to stimuli
Have organs
There are 7 Characteristic of Living Things

10. 1. Made of cells Living organisms are made up of cells.
There are different kinds of cells such as plant cells or animal cells
1. Made of cells

11. 2. Grow and develop
Living things grow and change over time

12. 3. Reproduction Living organisms can have offspring (babies)
Name some living things who can have babies?
3. Reproduction

13. Have traits inherited by ancestors
4. Made of DNA

14. Food
Water
5. Requires Energy

15. 6. Respond to Stimuli We shiver when it is cold Sweat when it is hot
Laugh when tickled

16. We have organs
We have systems (circular, respiratory)
7. Organization

17. Tarheel Reader
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18. Can you match these statements with it’s correct characteristic?

19. Review Living versus Non-Living Video
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