1. Acc Diversity of Life Needs of a Living Thing

2. 2 Maryland Science Content Standard Students will be able to provide examples and explain that organisms sorted into groups share similarities in external structures as well as similarities in internal anatomical structures and processes which can be used to infer the degree of relatedness among organisms

3. Objectives Students will be able to identify the things needed for organisms to carry out essential life functions. Title:Protozoa Lab Date:2/13/2016

4. What Are the Needs of a Living Thing? Warm-up: –Can you see all living things? –If not, aren’t they too small to have all the needs of living things? –What type of stimulus do you suppose an unicellular organism could respond to?

5. Today Students Will: Review last night’s homework vocabulary homework Extend their thinking on the properties of life by applying them to a lab using protozoa. Explain the needs of a living thing by completing a BCR in response to the lab. Evaluate your understanding by answering the key question.

6. Needs of Life Review Discussion What are the needs of life? Do all needs need to be met if an organism is going to survive?

7. Protozoa Lab We are going to complete a protozoa lab. Please complete the word document as we go along. –Click here for the documentClick here

8. Conclusion What do living things need to survive? How do we know that protozoa have the needs to survive?