Introduction to Organise This Life

Introduction to Organise This Life

Year 7

What are we going to learn today?

• What this topic is all about

• How we differentiate between living and non-living things

• Brief introduction to naming living things

Multiple Select

Which of these things are living?

• Humans

• Rocks

• Fire

• Robots

• Cats

Open Ended

Thinking about the last question, what made you choose the options you did? In other words, what makes something living?

Organise This Life: Topic Overview

• living or non living

• classification

• vertebrates vs invertebrates

• identification of plants

• fungi and bacteria

• adaptations

Multiple Choice

To be living, do organisms have to be able to grow?

• Yes

• No

Living or Non-Living?

• We can determine whether something is living or non-living by holding it to a set of characteristics (which we can see on the right)

• An organism MUST be able to do all of these things to be considered living

Multiple Choice

Would you consider an advanced AI robot living?

• Yes

• No

Open Ended

Why did you choose Yes or No in the last question?

WHY do we classify living things?

• We classify living things because there are a huge amount of living things in our world and scientists classify them to organise them

• They are organised by shared characteristics (including, appearance, mobility, function, genetics, and many more)

HOW do we classify things?

• We organise organisms into a hierarchy, and there are 8 main levels of this hierarchy

• We will need to learn these levels

Poll

How did you like this way of sharing content and questions?

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• I didn't like it!