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Activity 1
What does it mean to be alive?
Objectives
In this activity, you should be able to:
1. identify the components of the environment,
2. compare living and nonliving things, and
3. describe how organisms interact with each other and with their
environment.
Materials Needed
Drawing and writing materials
Rocks whose surface is grown with small plants
Magnifying lens
Procedure
1. Visit your school garden or a pond near your school. On a separate sheet of
paper, describe or draw the place.
Q1. What are the things that you see in your school garden or the pond?
Q2. Which of these things are living? Which of these things are nonliving?
Q3. Observe the things that you identified as living. What do they have
in common?
Q4. Observe the things that you identified as nonliving. What do they have in
common?
Q5. What interactions do you observe happening among the living and
nonliving things?
Q6. What makes living things different from nonliving things?