1. Warm Up
Objective:
Scientists will describe the characteristics of life by analyzing a lab with at least 4 of 5 questions answered correctly.
What is the topic?
What will you be doing?
Why is this important?
How will you know if you have done well?

2. Warm Up
Objective:
Scientists will describe the characteristics of life by analyzing a lab with at least 4 of 5 questions answered correctly.
What is the topic? Characteristics of life
What will you be doing? Analyzing a lab
Why is this important? To understand ourselves better; to see differences in how organisms react
How will you know if you have done well? Answer 4 of 5 questions correctly

3. Characteristics of Life
Brainstorm!
What do you think are the characteristics of life? What makes something “alive”?

4. Characteristics of Life
Scientists agree that the following characteristics are necessary to be considered alive:
• respond to their environment
• grow and change
• reproduce and have offspring
• have a complex chemistry
• maintain homeostasis
• are built of structures called cells //organization
• pass their traits onto their offspring
absorb/obtain energy

5. Lab
Around the room, there are different stations of living, non-living, products, dormant, and dead things.
Work with a partner. Move to the next station when time is called.
Identify whether you think it is living, non- living, a product, dormant or dead.
Explain why you categorized the item as living, non-living, a product, dormant, or dead.
Answer the questions once you are done.

6. Analysis
Discussion of the questions.

7. Exit Ticket
Complete the exit ticket. Write the characteristics of life that each example exhibits.