Characteristics of Life Lab



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Characteristics of Life

Warm Up

Objective: Scientists will describe the characteristics of life by analyzing a lab with at least 4 of 5 questions answered correctly and 5 of 7 on the exit ticket.

1. What is the topic?

2. What will you be doing?

3. Why is this important?

4. How will you know if you have done well?

Brainstorm!

List what characteristics make something “alive”!

Notes

Scientists agree that the following characteristics are necessary to be considered alive:

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Characteristics of Life Lab

With a partner, go to the stations (follow teacher’s direction).

Determine whether the item is living, non-living, a product of a living thing, or dead. Write this in the chart.

Give evidence for your claim in the chart.

| | |Living-L | |

|Item # |Item |Nonliving-N |Give evidence for your claim. |

| | |Product-P | |

| | |Dead-D | |

| | |Dormant-Dt | |

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Participate in the class discussion.

Analysis

1. How many of the items had all of the characteristics of life and are alive?

2. How many of the items had all of the characteristics of life and were once considered alive?

3. Of the things that were not considered alive, name one characteristic of life that NONE of them had.

4. What are the characteristics of life in your own words?

5. How do humans exhibit the following characteristics of life?

organization-

getting and using energy-

responsiveness-

homeostasis-

reproduction-

EXIT TICKET

Label each of the following situations as one of the characteristics of life.

|Situation |Characteristic of Life |

|a. a cell divides | |

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|b. a giraffe eats leaves off of a tree | |

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|c. when using a microscope you see liver cells | |

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|d. you get goose bumps when it’s cold | |

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|e. plants capture sunlight to make glucose | |

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|f. a sperm cell and egg cell fuse to make a zygote | |

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|g. a rabbit’s fur turns white in the winter | |

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