LESSON PLAN LESSON: living and non-living things

Teacher: Maitha Subject: Science

Grade: 1 Unit: 3 Date: 21-10-2019

SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING

Students will be able to:

 Student will be able to know the difference between living and non-living things.
 Student will be able to know that living things has multiple factors.

Link to prior learning: before we learned about the living things like plant and animals but today we will learn
what are the living and non-living things

21st Century Skills: Students will be able to enhance the following skills :

 (1) Critical thinking and problem solving: questioning

 Does it breath?
 Does it eat?
 Does it grow?
 Does it move?
(2) Communication and collaboration: work with the group

(3) Initiative and self-direction

(4) productivity and accountability.

Key vocabulary: - Living – Non-living – Nutrients – Grow - Breath – Move

Common misconceptions for learners: Ways of identifying and addressing these misconceptions:

 St can’t say the vocab words  Tr will read the word and let all the students repeat after
her

Resources/equipment needed:

Items of living and non-living

Notes

Stories

Park carpet

Animals

Centres activities

UNIT: LESSON: TASKS/ACTIVITIES

Resources & Time Starter (15 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

 Good Morning 1A  Good Morning Ms. Maitha

 I will choose each leader of
each group (red-pink-
yellow-blue-green-orange)

 Tr will spread all the living

and non-living thing around
the class.
 Tr: everyone should go
around the classroom and
take one thing
 Tr: What do you think we
will do with these?
St possible answer:
 Tr will open ClassDojo and
choose randomly Play, learn, see,,,etc

 Tr: Today we will learn what

are the living and non-living
things in our life
 Who can tell me what is
living and non-living

 Good job

 Living things: things that are

alive and grow, breath, have
I don’t know or animals
nutrients and change.
 Non-living things: things that
are not alive, don’t grow,
don’t change, don’t breath
does not have nutrients and
don’t change.

 Tr will walk a duck

 Tr: do you know what do I Duck
have?
 Good job
 Tr: How do we know if
something is living or non-
living?

 Living things can move,

grow, breath, and have
nutrients
 Move: it goes around
 Breath: takes oxygen
 Grow: it will be big
 Nutrients: eat food and
St will thumbs up if yes and thumbs down
drink water
if no
 Tr: Know I want you all to
watch me and watch Ms.
Felecia
 I have a plant, hmm does it
grow? Duck
 Thumbs up if yes or thumbs
down if no
St will thumbs up if yes and thumbs down
if no

St will thumbs up if yes and thumbs down

if no


  Does it breath?
 Does it eat?
 Does it grow?
 Does it move?
 Tr: will ask more questions
 Tr: now we can say that this
is living
 Now we will see what does
Ms. Felecia has?
 What can you see?
 Tissue
 Thumbs up if yes or thumbs
down if no
 Does it breath?
 Does it eat?
 Does it grow?
 Does it move?
 Tr: now we can say that this
is non-living
 Hmm, What if I have another
thing like this (she will point
to the laptop)
 What can you see?
 Thumbs up if yes or thumbs
down if no
 Does it breath?
 Does it eat?
 Does it grow?
 Does it move?
 Last, each group will present
what they have with telling
us if it’s living or non-living

Resources & Time Main activities (15minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Tr Will give each group an activity
Emergent group: will have
materials like (plant-pen-animals-
rubber- straw)
Students will sort the materials
into living and non-living

Developed group: will have to

draw what can they see from the
class living or non-living and write
if it’s living or non-living with
drawing the item
 Master group: students will have
stories and they have to find the
living and non-living in the story.
Last, each group will present what
have they done and explain why it
is living or non-living

Resources Plenary (5 minutes)

Teacher Will: Students Will:

Tr: today we learned about living and
non-living
I will choose randomly from Classdojo
Student will come in the front and Present what they chosen from carpet
choose anything from the carpet that and answer the questions.
has drawing and it has different of
things that living or non-living.
1- I want you to say the name of
the item
2- If it’s living or non-living
3- How did you know if it’s living
or non-living? St will choose anything from the carpet
to talk about it.

The Tr will write in the board living

and non-living and use it as an
summative assessment
Tr: now I will let you all to draw St will stick the notes in the right place of
anything you want and then stick it to living or non-living
the wall under either living or non-
living
Tr: Write your name first then draw
anything
Tr will model
I want to draw a cat
And I will stick it under the living
because cat can grow, breath, move,
have nutrients and change.
Tr will use Checklist to check for
student’s comprehension.
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Learning styles catered for (✓):

Visual Auditory Read/Write Kinaesthetic

Assessment for learning opportunities (✓):

Observation Student self-assessment Oral questioning Peer assessment

Quiz Student presentation Written work and Verbal feedback

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