Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
T.1. LIVING ORGANISMS.
1.- Watch the following video about our Planet Earth and answer the questions:
a.- Name 5 different living organisms that appear in the video.
b.- What characteristics do living things share?
c.- What do they need to live?
d.- Which layer (Atmosphere, Hydrosphere or Geosphere) appears in the following
pictures?.
2.- Classify the following compounds into:
− INORGANIC COMPOUNDS:
− ORGANIC COMPOUNDS:
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
3.- Game: work in pairs - classify the following battery of pictures in the three vital
functions.
4.- You are going to watch a video about unicellular and multicellular organisms.
After listening it, classify the following cells into unicellular and multicellular.
5.- The following video show how a bacteria grows. Is the bacteria a multicellular
organism?.
6.- Anagrams about Organisation in Living Things: Look at page 11 of your
English Science Book and solve the anagrams. After that, classify them into
unicellular and multicellular
ANAGRAM
PONSGES
ASTYE
LLMSCSOU
PODSTHARRO
SHFILLEJY
ZOATOPRO
NARIANSPLA
LSMMMAA
OLDSM
FSHI
GAALE
LPSYPO
RNFSE
SOLUTION
TRANSLATION
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
BTEACRIA
SSOM
ROOMSMUSH
PERMSANGIOS
NOSGYMPERMS
RDSBI
AMBIANSPHI
7.- Clap Game: You are going to see some pictures of levels of organization of living
things. In each picture you will listen a sentence. You will have to answer if that
sentence is true of false with claps:
ONE CLAP: TRUE
TWO CLAPS: FALSE
1.- This is a bacteria
2.- This is a mammal
3.- This is a jellyfish
4.- These are mushrooms
5.- This is a fish
6.- This is a bacteria
7.- These are arthropods
8.- This is a fish
9.- This is moss
10.- These are planarians
11.- This is a reptile
12.- This is a sponge
13.- This is a fern
14.- These are polyps
15.- These are mushrooms
16.- These are molds
17.- This is an amphibian
18.- This is a gymnosperm
19.- This is mold
20.- This is a bird
21.- This is a reptile
22.- This is a fish
23.- This is a mushroom
24.- This is an angiosperm
25.- This is a reptile
26.- This is an amphibian
27.- This is a mammal
28.- This is an arthropod
29.- This is a fern
30.- This is an algae
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
8.- Work in groups of ….. You are going to see some pictures in groups. You should
name them without mistakes. (Organization levels pictures). You have to choose
between the following names:
LEVEL 1
Unicellular
LEVEL 2
Multicellular
without
tissues
PROTOZOA SPONGES
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 4
Multicellular Multicellular with
with tissues organs
LEVEL 5
Multicellular with
systems
MOSS
ARTHROPODS
BACTERIA ALGAE
COLONIES FUNGI
JELLYFISH
POLYPS
PLATYHELMINTES
WORMS
FERNS
TREES
FISH
MAMALS
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
9.- Multiple choice:
1.- The life on Earth depends on:
a.- oxygen
b.- sun
c.- atmosphere
d.- all of them
2.- Where do you think the life was born?
a.- in the atmosphere
b.- in the space
c.- in the water
d.- all of them
3.- What is a living thing?
a.- something that can talk
b.- something that can think
c.- something that performs the three vital functions
d.- something that infects other living things
4.- How many kingdoms are there?
a.- 3
b.- 5
c.- 4 + virus
d.- 6
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
5.- The nutrition function happens:
a.- only when you are eating
b.- only when you are drinking and eating
c.- only when you breathe
d.- all the time
6.- Imagine you live in another planet. What option is the best?
a.- one with virus, water, 21% oxygen , sun and atmosphere
b.- one with light, and heat but not atmosphere
c.- one with water, 10% oxygen , light and atmosphere
d.- one with water, light, heat, atmosphere and no oxygen
7.- Unicellular organisms:
a.- are formed by one cell
b.- do not do the 3 vital functions
c.- sometimes form colonies
8.- Which one is false:
a.- bacteria are all unicellular
b.- bacteria are all prokaryotic
c.- bacteria are all harmfull
d.- bacteria are all microscopic
10.- Relate these words:
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DNA
PLASMATIC CELL
CYTOPLASM
MITOCHONDRION
LUNGS
BRAIN
BLOOD
SKIN
11.- Match these words in the two columns:
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An insect
An oak tree
A bacteria
PROKARYOTIC CELLS
PLANT EUKARYOTIC CELLS
ANIMAL EUKARYOTIC CELLS
12.- Look at these pictures and complete the chart (mark with “X” what you can
see in each type of cell.
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
13.- Consolidate what you know. Are these sentences T or F:
Teaching Unit: LIVING ORGANISMS
Leonor María Cosano Jurado
1.- Colonies are multicellular organisms
2.- All multicellular organisms cells are identical
3.- You can feed your organism without eating and drinking
4.- All organisms are composed of cells.
5.- Water is not important for life
6.- It is totally impossible that life can exist in other planets
7.- The eukaryotic cell is newer than the prokaryotic cell
8.- The 5 kingdoms have eukaryotic cells
9.- All the bacteria are bad for human beings
10.- All virus are bad for people.
11.- Prokaryotic cells have nucleus
12.- Eukaryotic cells have cellular walls
13.- Vegetal cells have choroplast
14.- Prokaryotic cells evolve from eukaryotic cells
15.- Vegetal cells are bigger than animal cells
16.- Animal cells are round and vegetal are hexagonal.
17.- All cells come from preexisting cells
18.- Ramón y Cajal discovered neurons
19.- Microscope is essential to see cells.
20.- An egg is a one cell.
14.- What the video about the discovery of cells and answer the
questions:
a.- Who was the first to see a bacteria?.
b.- What kind of vegetal Robert Hooke studied?
c.- What is the meaning of “Cell Theory”?.
d.- What does the cell theory say?