PDF Module Living Things Other Than Plants and Animals

Suggested time allotment: 4 hours

MODULE

3

LIVING THINGS OTHER

THAN PLANTS AND

ANIMALS

Overview

In this module, you will start examining life forms other than the

plants and animals you studied in Grades 3 through 6. You will begin with

the macroscopic forms or parts that you can see and move to the barely

noticeable ones, using a magnifying lens. If your school has a microscope,

you can observe the truly microscopic forms as well. These cannot be seen

by the naked eye, not even through magnifying lenses.

These life forms are in the soil, water and air all around us. They are

on our body and inside it, on the food we eat and the things we use. Many

are useful to humans while some are harmful and may cause disease. In

studying them, we develop inquiry skills and use a powerful observation

device, the microscope, if this is available.

You and your classmates will perform two hands-on activities in this

module, which entail observing, recording, communicating by drawing and

writing, going out in the school grounds to collect specimens, inferring and

answering questions.

In so doing, you expand your knowledge about the living world and

appreciate the diversity in life forms.

What are the other living things besides plants

and animals?

Which are useful to us? Which are harmful?

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Activity 1

Are these also plants?

Objectives

In this activity, you will:

1. Observe life forms other than those you studied from Grades 3

through 6,

2. Use a magnifying lens to observe them,

3. Share what you know about these life forms with classmates and

groupmates,

3. Compare them with known living things studied in Grades 3 to 6.

Materials Needed

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Live specimens from teacher

Magnifying lens

Procedure

1. Look* at the live specimen shown by

your teacher which is like the photo

below:

Q1.

Is it a plant? _______________________

Q2.

What is its name?

__________________

Q3.

What is the reason for your answer

in Q1?

_____________________________

____________________________________

Photo by A. Encarnacion 2012

*Warning: Do not touch the specimen with your bare hands, taste or

smell it, especially those of you who have known allergies

and if the specimen is not eaten. It may be poisonous.

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2. Look at the second live specimen your teacher will show you. It is similar

to the photo below:

Rotor, A.V. (2010)

downloaded 12 March 2012.

Q4.

Is it a plant? _______________

Q5.

What is its name? _______________________________

Q6.

What is your reason for your answer in Q4? ________________________

___________________________________________________________________

3. Compare the two specimens shown by your teacher.

Q7.

How are they different? ___________________________

Q8.

How are they alike? ______________________________

Q9.

Do you know of other living things like the two above? _____________.

If so, describe these living things. _______________________________

Q10. How did you know about them? ___________________

Q11. Write their names if you know them. ______________

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4. Observe the third specimen to be shown by your teacher. She will show

you something like this photo grabbed from an internet source.



downloaded 21 March 2012

Q12. What do you think it is? _______________

Q13. Is it a plant? ________________

Q14. Give a reason for your answer in Q13.______________________________

___________________________________________________________________

5.

Observe these three other things your teacher prepared for you to

observe:

a.

And,

b.

Or,

c.

d.

Photo credits: potato by A.

Encarnacion, old banana peeling and

bread by R. Reyes, and



vasive_algae/chloro/enteromorpha_fl

exuosa.htm downloaded 12 March

2012 for the ¡°green stuff.¡±

Warning:

Do not touch (a), (b), or (c) with your bare hands. Do not

smell or taste them either. Some sensitive individuals may

be allergic to them.

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6. Describe what you see in each (a) and (b) or (c).

Q15. (a) _________________________________________________________________

Q16. (b or c) ____________________________________________________________

7. Describe (d).

Q17. (d) ________________________________________________________________

8. What do you think the growths on (a), and (b) or (c) are?

Q18. (a) ____________________________ Q19. (b) or (c) _____________________

9. How about (d), what do you think it is?

Q20. ___________________________

10. Discuss your answers with your classmates and teacher in class.

_____________________________________________________________________

What you saw are also living things. There are living things or

organisms that cannot be readily identified by the usual parts of plants we

recognize like roots, stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits though they may have

the green color and some plant-like parts. There are also living things that

we can see only when we use magnifying lenses. Tomorrow, we will go out

and look for more of these kinds of living things which are not like the

plants we learned about in the lower grades. Bring plastic gloves, and plastic

bags at least one each.

Activity 2

What other living things are found in the school

grounds?

Objectives

In this activity, you will:

1. Hunt for life forms that are doubtfully plants,

2. Collect specimens of these life forms,

3. Observe these life forms using a magnifying lens,

4. Describe/draw them,

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