BASIC SCIENCE (BST) 

BASIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (BST) 

FIRST TERM WEEK 7

PRIMARY 6 (BASIC 6) 

THEME – LIVING AND NON – LIVING THINGS 

PREVIOUS LESSON – 

 

TOPIC – LIVING AND NON – LIVING THINGS 

LEARNING AREA 

1. Meaning and Characteristics of of Living Things

2. Meaning and Characteristics of Non Living Things

3. Classification of Things as Living Things and Non Living Things

3. Revision and Weekly Assessment Test

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and be able to:

1. define living things and non living things.

2. analyze the different between living things and non living things.

3. identify self as a living thing.

4. identify other living and non – living things in the classroom, school and at home.

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOR 

The pupils can differentiate between living things and non living things.

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of charts and posters showing living things and non living things and audio and visual resources.

 

METHOD OF TEACHING

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information – Living and Non Living Things – Identification and Characteristics of Living and Non Living Things ASEI PDSI METHOD (Primary 6)

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION 

Living things are things that are alive. People, animals and plants are living things. They need air, water, and food to stay alive. Non – living things are things that cannot grow, move, breathe and reproduce. They do not have any kind of life in them.

 

LIVING THINGS 

Living things are things that are alive.

People, animals and plants are living things.

They need air, water, and food to stay alive.

 

EXAMPLES OF LIVING THINGS

1. Man

2. Plant 

3. Animal, etc. 

 

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

1. Feeding – All living organism need to take substance from their environment to obtain energy to grow and stay healthy.

2.  Movement – People move, birds fly, fish swim and plant move (by wind, water, activities of man and animal).

3. Growth – Human child, young plant and animals grows into an adult human, plant and animal.

4. Reproduce and have young – People have babies. Chicken lays eggs and a chick hatches from an egg. Cow have calf. Plants have seeds and grow new plants or man transplants to grow new ones.

5. Breathing and Respiration – Man and animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.

6. Sensitivity – People and animals react to changes around them. They react to touch, light, heat, cold, sound, and so on.

7. Excretion – The removal of waste from is body. Waste in the body is poisonous. Urine is a waste. What we breathe out is a waste.

 

LESSON 2 – NON – LIVING THINGS 

Non – living things are things that cannot grow, move, breathe and reproduce. They do not have any kind of life in them.

 

EXAMPLES OF NON – LIVING

1. Book

2. Bucket

3. Water, etc.

 

CHARACTERISTICS OF NON LIVING THINGS

Non – living things are things that are not alive. They do not need air, food or water. They do not move, grow and reproduce.

 

LESSON 3 – LESSON EVALUATION/ASSIGNMENT 

As stated in the objectives or lesson evaluation. 

 

PREPARATION FOR NEXT WEEK LESSON 

Get a container fill with good soil and any crop of your choice.

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson by asking relevant questions based on what has taught and learnt.

2. Teacher displays charts/posters showing living things such people, animals and plants and non living things such as books, pencils, etc.

3. Teacher asks the pupils to carefully examine the charts/posters, identify and classify each item as either living things or non living things.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils identify and classify each item as either living things or non living things.

4. Teacher uses the charts/posters and the pupil’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson and leads a whole class discussion on the meaning of living things and non living things.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the lesson introduction and participate actively in the class discussion on the meaning of living things and non living things.

5. Teacher initiates and guides discussions on characteristics of living things and non – living things.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils differentiate between living and non – living things.

6. Teacher takes the pupils for nature walk to observe activities of living things and non living things.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils observe and collect living and non – living materials in their school surroundings.

7. Teacher shows films illustrating different activities of living things such as movement, feeding, reproduction, etc.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils recognize different types of movement, feeding and reproduction.

8. Teacher summarizes the lesson on the board with appropriate evaluation.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the summary of the lesson by responding correctly to most of the questions write as instructed.

 

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

NEXT LESSON – Improving Crops Yield – Growing Crops with Compost and Chemical Fertilizer | Conditions for Growing Better Crops | Importance of Fertilizers to the Soil Primary 6 (Basic 6) Term 1 Week 3 Basic Science and Technology

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Teacher asks the pupils to,

1. differentiate between living things and non living things.

2. state 5 characteristics of living things.

3. discuss and demonstrate the different types of movement in living things. Hint – walking, swimming, flying, jumping, etc.

4. describe self as a living thing.

5. describe plants and animals as living things.

6. give 5 examples of living things.

7. mention 5 examples of non living things.

 

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT TEST

1. Living things are things that are _____.

A. Alive

B. Death

 

2. People, animals and plants are _____.

A. non living things

B. living things

 

3. _____ need air, water, and food to stay alive.

A. Living things

B. Non living things

 

4. _____ things are things that cannot grow, move, breathe and reproduce.

A. non living things

B. living things

 

5. _____ do not have any kind of life in them.

A. non living things

B. living things

 

6. One of these is not characteristic of non living things.

A. Feeding

B. Not growing

C. Not reproducing

 

7. The following are characteristic of living things except

A. Growing

B. Reproduction

C. Static

 

8. give 5 examples of living things. (5 marks)

9. mention 5 examples of non living things. (5 marks)

10. differentiate between living things and non living things. (3 marks)