Assignments for This Unit
All documents / graphic organizers for
in-class activities & homework:
The Walk of Life
What does it mean to be alive? Let's find out!
Students will explore the world around them in order to identify the characteristics, and needs that all living things have in common.
Characteristics & Needs Illustrated
What do the characteristics and needs looks like?
Students illustrate and label each characteristic and need of all living things. The intent is to deepen their understanding, and begin to generalize these specific designations and how they manifest across the whole living world.
Living Words
Pick a Card! Any Card!-Reading from Text Book/Vocabulary Cards
In this activity, students read from the text, and make vocabulary cards that will help them understand how the needs and characteristics of living things manifest in all life on earth. Theses cards will also become study tools for the upcoming quiz.
The Game of Life
This is the Angevine Life Science Version
Using game boards cards become the review and the method by which each student moves forward on the game board. The student picks a card. The person must answer the question correctly. If they do so, they roll the dice and move forward the amount on the dice. Then it is the next student’s turn. Have fun, and learn at the same time. Compete with your friends, see if you can outsmart them.
Bread Mold Lab
Remember that sandwich you left in your locker?
In this lab we will be exploring the characteristics and needs of all living things. What does bread mold need in order to thrive and stay alive?
Waneka Lake Field Trip
Permision Slip
Students go to Waneka Lake to collect samples for upcoming Diversity of Life Unit. Students will observe pond water life through microscopes.
Field Trip to Waneka Lake
Trip to Waneka Lake to collect pond water samples
Here you will find a description of the field trip along with guidelines and expectations. There is also a copy of the field trip form incase you have misplaced the form the teacher gave you in class.
50 Cent Microscope
Video- TED Talk 3/7/14
Is it possible to build a working microscope for 50 cents?
It's better than you think.
Perhaps you've punched out a paper doll or folded an origami swan? TED Fellow Manu Prakash and his team have created a microscope made of paper that's just as easy to fold and use. A sparkling demo that shows how this invention could revolutionize healthcare in developing countries ... and turn almost anything into a fun, hands-on science experiment.
The Microscope: More Than Meets the Eye
Microscope Orientation
In this assignment, students will become familiar with the way a microscope works. How all the pieces and parts work, and what they are used for. This is the first step toward taking a closer look at the microscopic world to which humans were unaware until the invention of the microscope in the early 1600s.
Exploring The Uknown World
Students us microscopes to observe pond water
Now that students are familair with using a microscope, and making their own slides, they get to observe the living creatures in the pond water they collected from Waneka Lake. A whole new world in a drop of water!
Exploring The Known World
Students use microscopes to observe prepared slides.
Using prepared slides, students practice using microscopes correctly. They also begin to become familiar with the microsocpic world that was beyond the reach of science before the invention of the microscope in the 1600s.
Pond Water Exit Ticket
What did you expect to see in the pond water?
What did you actually see?
Science Film: The Unknown World
NOVA 2005
This is a short segment of the video which allows students to see the organisms that inhabit the Unknown World through the use of microscopic observation and photography
Questions for "The Unknown World"
Questions for the film
This is the question sheet that goes with "The Unknown World " video. .