Students observe living things on their school grounds to determine similarities and differences among them. They compare and contrast two similar animals. Students listen to a story about a dog and identify what it needs to live. Is Maize by Aliki to determine what plants need. Students determine some needs people have.
Students compare a plastic or rubber spider to a live spider.
They identify, draw, and develop a chart of living and nonliving things which they have observed on the school grounds. Students compare a small rock to a bean seed and draw each one before soaking them overnight. They listen to the story Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig and identify some differences between living and nonliving things. Students make observations on their school grounds for evidence that living things are dependent on their environment. They examine the bean seeds they soaked in the previous lesson and compare these to the rocks.