Year 3

Living and
Non-Living
Things
Lesson 2- Biological Science
Wall to Wall  
Living or
non-living?
Living or
non-living?
Living or
non-living?
Living or
non-living?
• Find what all living things have in common (their characteristics).
• How to tell whether something is living or non-living.
• Work as a team to find what all living things have in common.
• A poster that shows me one characteristic that all living things have.
• Reasons (or justifications) why something is either living or non-living.
In teams…
• Use your collages from yesterday and the items on our
discovery table to make a list of things or characteristics
that all living things have in common.

• The speaker of each group will report back to the class on

what characteristics your group believe all living things
have.
 Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Characteristics
'MRS GREN' Growth
 
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
  All animals move
 Plants can open
and close their
Movement leaves
 Sunflowers orient
their flowers to
MRS GREN follow the Sun
 When plants
'move', we call it
'growth'
  When something
breathes
Respiration  The release of
energy stored in
MRS GREN organic
compounds
  A living thing gathers
information about its
environment and
reacts in
Sensitivity consequence
 Plants react to their
MRS GREN environment by
growing towards the
light
  Living things
Growth have the ability
to grow
MRS GREN
 Living things
come from
Reproduction other living
things and can
MRS GREN often create
new living
things
 Living things
Excretion excrete
things such as
MRS GREN gases, salts
and waste
  Living things need
different elements
for growth and
reproduction from
the world around
Nutrition them
 Animals need to
MRS GREN eat to gain energy
 Plants 'eat'
(absorb) minerals
to get energy from
the Sun
  Choose a card from the
mystery box and decide
whether it is showing
something living or non-
living.
 Glue the picture onto the
Exit Slip: exit-slip provided
 Justify why you believe
your card shows a living
or non-living thing using
MRS GREN. You need to
give at least 3 reasons.