1. Characteristics of Living Things
Who is Mr. Green?

2. Think/Pair/Share Activity
Question:
How do you know you are alive?

3. Another activity!!! Characteristics of Life Vid
On chart paper, create a list of characteristics that you think are common to all living things.
In other words, how do you know something is alive?
Characteristics of Life Vid

4. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Movement:
The ability of an organism to bend and sway, or relocate.

5. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Reproduction:
The ability of an organism to breed and pass on its traits.

6. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Growth:
The ability of an organism to increase in size through cell growth or cell division.

7. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Response:
The ability of an organism to react to a stimulus.

8. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Excretion:
The ability of an organism to get rid of waste.

9. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Exchange of gases:
In animals, the ability to take oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide; in plants, the ability to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

10. The 7 Characteristics of Living Things
Nutrition:
The ability of an organism to acquire and process foods/nutrients.

11. Mr. Green!!!! Do you get it? M – Movement R – Reproduction G – Growth
R – Response
E – Excretion
E – Exchange of gases
N - Nutrition