Our new unit: How We Share The Planet: Plants In Our Midst
Central Idea: Plants play a unique role in our lives and the lives of animals
Todays activity assessed the children's prior knowledge of living and non living things. The whole group worked together to create a Venn Diagram comparing a rock and a plant and then everyone broke up into their groups to sort a tray of things.
Some of the criteria the children used in deciding:
- does it breathe?
- does it grow?
- does it need food and water?
- does it reproduce?
- does it move?
- does it take up space?
The the children drew a thing and placed it on the living and non living chart.
Some questions the children asked:
French fries help people grow so is it a living thing?
Do all living things have faces?
Do lollipops breathe? (this question was inspired by the Lollipop Tree song the children are learning) (see Anamaria's blogs)
Do lollipops breathe?
ReplyDeleteIsn't this so telling about how children are picking up the subtle and not so subtle messages in media? This sounds like I might try a bit of a philosophy conversation with them...Albert's Toothache might inspire she conversation about real and not real.
We might also look closely at the literature we are using and get the children to explore and record personification.