Living or Non-Living?

Our first theme unit this year is all about Organisms. This week, we began with a discussion (and picture sort) of living and non-living things.

Students worked in pairs and small groups to sort any number of things into these two groups including: a river, an egg, pupae, chrysalis, a hibernating bear, a leaf and much, much more. For each decision, students needed evidence to support their thinking. Together, we wrote a working definition of living things that we'll refer back todos the rest of the unit.