Marvelous Monday!!

1. Marvelous Monday!! • Do NOW: Prompt: IN NO LESS THAN 5 SENTENCES: EXPLAIN TO AN 8TH GRADER IN YOUR OWN WORDS WHAT IS LIFE. • What are the characteristics of life? • What makes something alive?? • Little Known Fact • Right Now EVERYONE HAS AN A

2. Congratulations on Completing Science Fair • These Skills: • Science Lab Writing • Inquiry • Lab Procedures • Original Questions • Observations • Research • Will allow us to dig DEEPER into the SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS • We’ve Got So much to Do: • Let’s GO!

3. Changes in the Room?: • Changes in the room: • Leading up to something special  • Hint Hint: Keep focused this week!! ????

4. This Week At A Glance • Monday: What is life? • Tuesday: Penguins • Wednesday: Homeostasis • Thursday: Award Ceremony: Shorted classes • Friday: QUIZ

5. Properties of Life What characteristics do living creatures have in common?

6. List of Properties of Life? • What do you think?? • Participation points, remember we want to keep our A’s!

7. How Do you Know its Alive? • Nonliving things – • Don’t actively obtain or use energy • In its current state, never living • Example: Silk Flowers • Dead – • Don’t actively obtain or use energy • In it’s current state, was once living • Example: Dried Flower Petals

8. Characteristics of the Living • All living things are called organisms • Organisms share these characteristics: • Organization • Reproduction • Development • Homeostasis • Adaptation

9. Living creatures are ORGANIZED • All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as… • molecules • proteins, fats, carbohydrates, nucleic acids carbohydrates proteins DNA

10. Living creatures are ORGANIZED • All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as… • organelles & cells • plant cells & animal cells plant cell animal cell

11. Living creatures are ORGANIZED • All made of the same collection of chemicals, but we are organized as… • organs & organ systems • respiratory, circulatory, digestive, etc.

12. Living creatures REPRODUCE • Make the next generation

13. Living creatures GROW & DEVELOP • Change over an individual’s life time • get bigger • mature • so they can reproduce

14. Living creatures RESPOND • Respond to internal changes • Homeostasis • maintaining balanced conditions inside the body • Respond to external changes

15. Living creatures ADAPT • Inherited structures or behavior • Allows organisms to respond to changes in the environment and survive • Example: • Tarsier: Primate • Large eyes allows it to see well in the dark • Long fingers allows it to hold on well to tree branches

16. Living creatures also use ENERGY • Metabolism • all the reactions your body performs to make & use energy • eating & digestion & elimination of waste • synthesis = building • cellular respiration = making energy mitochondria

17. Identify the characteristic of life for each example. • Rabbit running from a fox • Cat nursing a kitten • Green feathers on a parrot • Bear hibernating • Tree grows fruit

18. Exit Ticket • Finish the Living Things Anticipation Guide. • Fill in the Right side and put it in your classes drawer on the way out of class.