UNIT 4: LIVING AND NONLIVING THINGS
NATURAL SCIENCE SECOND LEVEL PRIMARY
M陋 Isabel L贸pez
CEIP SANTA ANA MADRIDEJOS (TOLEDO)
LIVING THINGS CHARACTERISTICS
ARE BORN
NEEDS
FOOD
DIE
NUTRITION
WATER
GROW
REPRODUCE
VITAL FUNCTIONS
INTERACTION AIR
A PLACE TO LIVE
REPRODUCTION
LIVING THINGS CAN GROW, MOVE AND NEED FOOD.
People, animals and plants are living things.
CHARACTERISTICS ALL LIVING THINGS ……….
ARE BORN,
REPRODUCE
GROW,
AND DIE.
Viviparous animals are born from their mother’s womb.
Oviparous animals are born from an egg.
Plants are born from seeds.
A seed grows to become a tree.
A baby grows to become an adult.
A puppy grows to become a dog.
A tadpole grows to become a frog.
A chic grows to become a hen.
When living things reproduce, they make other living things with the same characteristics.
All living things die.
NEEDS All living things need ……..
FOOD
WATER
AIR
Carnivores eat other animals to survive.
Herbivores eat plants.
Omnivores eat other animals or plants.
Plants absorb nutrients and water from the soil.
All living things need a place to live.
VITAL FUNCTIONS Nutrition
Humans and animals cannot make their own food.
Plants can make their own food. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants make their food.
Interaction
All animals interact with other animals. We use our
senses to interact with other things.
Reproduction
Animals make new animals with the same characteristics. Plants produce seeds from which other plants grow.
NON-LIVING THINGS
NATURAL
MAN-MADE
NON - LIVING THINGS CAN’T GROW, MOVE AND DON’T NEED FOOD
A table, a car, a pencil, a house, a doll, a fan, mountains and clouds are non-living things.
Some non-living things are natural, which means that people don’t make them.
AIR THE SUN
WATER THE MOON
ROCKS AND MINERALS
CLOUDS
Other non-living things are man-made, which means that people make them.
TABLE
PENCIL
FAN
HOUSE
BRIDGE
CAR
LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS