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SCIENCE JOURNAL, WEEK #8, Monday, Oct. 14

ESSENTIAL QUESTION EQ: What is so important about Mrs. Nerg?

Quotation to relate to science or life

“We may all have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”—Martin Luther King Jr.

Homework► Homework: Proofread journal. Vocabulary due Friday. Announcements, Questions???, Review

A, Q, R http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HDJP10qSQ

Students’ Objective Obj. 7.L.1 structures, functions of organisms Teacher presents.

Vocabulary instructions (Define and illustrate.) bbc curriculum bites, lifeprocesses ppt

Students do.

Copy vocabulary terms for the week (unless a handout is provided). In your journal, give examples for each life process: one plant example, one animal Last week’s vocabulary corrections

LIFE PROCESSES

Looking at living things

Living things Although all living things look different

from each other, they all have seven things in common.

These seven things are called life processes.

Something is only alive if it does all seven processes.

THE SEVEN LIFE PROCESSES

1All living

things move

Animals move their whole bodies to get from one place to another.

Plants turn towards the light and their roots grow down into the soil.

2

All living things

reproduce

Animals have babies.

New plants grow from seeds.

3

All living things are sensitive

All living things respond to changes. Living things notice changes in their surroundings and react to them.

E.g. Plants grow towards the light.

E.g. People react to the temperature around them.

4

All living things need

nutrition

Food is used to provide energy.

Green plants make their own food using sunlight.

Animals eat plants or other animals.

5

All living things excrete

Waste substances must be removed from the body.

Plants and animals both need to get rid of waste gas and water.

6

All living things respire

Plants and animals use the oxygen in the air to turn food into energy.

7All living

things grow

Human babies grow into adult humans.

Seedlings grow into adult plants.

The seven life processes1 Move

2 Reproduce3 Sensitive4 Nutrition5 Excrete6 Respire7 Grow

Use the first letter from each process to help you remember

them. Move

Reproduce Sensitive NutritionExcrete Respire Grow

They spell MRS NERG

This is MRS NERG !Can you remember what each of the letters in her name stand for ?

Move Reproduce Sensitive NutritionExcrete Respire Grow

Well done !

The 7 Life Processes

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Nutrition

Excretion

Reproduction

Growth

Movement Most of this is common sense. You can move around f rom place to place and so can most plants and animals. Animals move to: find shelter, escape f rom predators and other danger, find f ood, find a mate. (Plants tilt or move to f ace the sun.) Respiration is the burning of energy f rom glucose or another organic chemical in our cells. Respiration happens in ALL living things. Sensitivity is very important. How would you know if something was fi t to eat if you could not smell or taste it? How would you escape danger? Growth ------ we all do it. Reproduction: making more of ourselves. Excretion means getting rid of the poisonous waste products produced f rom the chemical reactions in our bodies. We breathe out carbon dioxide and we urinate.

Nutrition. We have to eat to provide the materials f or growth, repair and to provide us with energy.

Hello! I’m Mrs. Nerg.

I have an identical twin . Her name is Mrs. Gren. Also see

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