LESSON 1
Unit 5: Alive! From Algae to Zooplankton
Alive
OR NOT?
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LESSON 1
Unit 5: Alive! From Algae to Zooplankton
Alive
OR NOT?
Scientists classify (sort) things as
living or non-living. Students learn
how to sort things by whether they
are alive, never alive, or dead. To be
considered alive, something has to
meet all the items on the checklist.
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Alive or Not Alive. Alive things eat, grow, breathe, and defend.
8 No! No! Never-ever!
A1: Never Alive. Never alive things have never eaten, breathed, defended, nor have had
a life cycle.
16 Never-ever or Dead-dead?
A2: Dead. Something dead has stopped eating, growing, breathing and defending itself.
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(Alive or Not Alive)
What is
one way
we sort
things?
Alive or Not
alive!
Alive!
~ Alive or Not
Launch!
Alive things eat, grow, breathe, and defend.
Ready?
Familiarize yourself with Not Alive lyrics (U5.L1.Launch-page 5) and
line dance moves (U5.L1.Launch-page 6).
Set?
Materials
Not Alive (mp3 and lyrics)
Hawaii
Standards
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• Unit 3-Lesson 1-All Activities: Sort It Out!
• Unit 5-Lesson 1-Activity 1: No! No! Never-ever! (Never Alive)
• Unit 5-Lesson 1-Activity 2: Dead-dead? (Dead Things)
• Unit 5-Lesson 2-All Activities: Alive and Eating
• Unit 5-Lesson 3-All Activities: Alive and Breathing
• Unit 5-Lesson 4-All Activities: Alive and Defending
• Unit 5-Lesson 5-All Activities: Alive and Growing
Go!
Develop Know-Wonder-Learn chart with students.
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Think about it...
What common objects are not alive?
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Sing and line dance to Not Alive as a class.
Use your own moves or those listed on the next page.
You’ll never see a car with a family,
You’ll never see your toys begin to grow,
And when the grass gets long in your front yard,
The house won’t grab the mower and begin to mow...
Cause they’re not alive!
They’re non-living things,
Non-living things,
They don’t even know that they can’t grow,
And I can prove that they can’t move.
They can’t shade the light when it gets too bright,
And they can’t have kids...
Man, that’s just the way it is!
Keiki
Storytime
What’s Alive by Kathleen
Weidner Zoehfeld (J 577 Zo)
Literary Link
Watch the Nutcracker. This
ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
tells of toys who come to life!
Non-living things 2x
But I’ll bet that you have a family,
And I’ll bet you’ve noticed that the grass can grow,
And when it gets too high in your front yard,
Someone needs to grab the mower and begin to mow...
Cause it’s alive!
We’re all living things,
All living things,
I bet you know that you can grow,
And you can prove that you can move.
You can shade the light when it gets too bright,
And we can have kids...
...man, that’s just the way it is!
NOAA Link
The Unmanned Aircraft
Systems project developed
airplanes to fly without
people on board! Are these
airplanes alive?
www.uas.noaa.gov.
We’re all living things 2x
How it works
Cars, toys, and your home! They do not
grow, eat, breathe, nor defend, so not
one of them lives. Can you think of more
objects that do not live?
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Not alive: Dance Moves
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Common line dance moves
Each number represents a beat of music.
Toe Touches To The Side
1. Touch the right toe to the right side.
2. Touch the right toe next to the left foot.
3. Touch the right toe to the right side.
4. Step next to the left foot with the right foot.
5. Touch the left toe to the left side.
6. Touch the left toe next to the right foot.
7. Touch the left toe to the left side.
8. Step next to the right foot with the left foot.
Toe Touches To The Back
1. Touch the right toe to the right back corner.
2. Touch the right toe next to the left foot.
3. Touch the right toe to the right back corner.
4. Step next to the left foot with the right foot.
5. Touch the left toe to the left back corner.
6. Touch the left toe next to the right foot.
7. Touch the left toe to the left back corner.
8. Step next to the right foot with the left foot.
Raise The Knees
1. Raise the right knee.
2. Touch the right toe next to the left foot.
3. Raise the right knee.
4. Step next to the left foot with the right foot.
5. Raise the left knee.
6. Touch the left toe next to the right foot.
7. Raise the left knee.
8. Step next to the right foot with the left foot.
Raise The Knees And Turn
1. Raise the right knee.
2. Step next to the left foot with the right foot.
3. Raise the left knee.
4. Step next to the right foot with the left foot.
5. Clap the hands together.
6. Hold.
7. Turn to the right.
8. Hold.
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~ Alive or Not
No! No!
Never-ever!
(Never Alive)
Never alive!
Alive!
What do you call
something that
never eats, grows,
breathes, and
defends?
Never alive things have never eaten, breathed,
defended, nor had a life cycle.
Ready?
Engage
Materials
Gray Rabbit’s Odd One Out
(E B)
Animal
Animal puppet
Alive! Checklist
(U5.L1.A1-p.14) (5 per student)
Pencil
Water (1/2 bowl per group)
Ivory soap bar (1 per group)
Microwaveable bowl
(1 per group)
Hawaii
Standards
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Check out Gray Rabbit’s Odd One Out by Alan Baker (E B).
Explore
Photocopy Alive Checklist (U5.L1.A1-page14) (five per student).
Set?
• Unit 3-Lesson 1-All Activities: Sort It Out!
• Unit 5-Lesson 2-All Activities: Alive and Eating
• Unit 5-Lesson 3-All Activities: Alive and Breathing
• Unit 5-Lesson 4-All Activities: Alive and Defending
• Unit 5-Lesson 5-All Activities: Alive and Growing
Go!
Develop Know-Wonder-Learn chart with students.
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Think about it...
How do you know if something is alive?
Engage
Read Gray Rabbit’s Odd One Out as a class.
Reading
Resource
What is a Living Thing? by
Bobbie Kalman (J 570 Ka)
Expressive
Expressions
“Alive and kicking” means
something is very much
alive. It originated in 1850,
when fishermen said it to
convince customers of the
freshness of their catch.
Did You Know?
Scientists do not agree on
a single checklist defining
what things are alive.
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~ Alive and EATING
Alive!
No! No!
Never-ever!
Think about it...
Do animal puppets live?
Explore
Compare live animal and similar puppet in small groups.
• Complete Alive Checklist for the animal.
• Complete Alive Checklist for the puppet.
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Explain
What makes something alive? Uncle says everything around us is either
living or non-living. Non-living things are either dead or never alive.
How do you know if something is alive?
It eats, breathes, defends,and grows! Drawings of rabbits do not eat.
They do not breathe. They do not defend. They do not grow. Therefore,
drawings never live.
Just for Fun
Make a pet rock! Find
a smooth river rock and
decorate it. Is your new pet
alive?
Do animal puppets live?
No! Puppets do not eat. They do not breathe. They do not defend.
They do not grow. Aunty says animals do all these things. Since
puppets do not, they do not live.
What’s in a
Word?
Puppet comes from the
Latin word pupa (doll).
Literature
Link
The Adventures of
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
tells the story of a puppet
who wishes to become a
boy. How do you know this
story is fiction?
Scientists
say...
...synthetic for something
man-made (not occurring
naturally). Into what
category would synthetic
materials fall?
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~ Alive and EATING
Alive!
No! No!
Never-ever!
Think about it...
If something grows, is it alive?
Elaborate
Grow soap in small groups.
• Break bar of Ivory soap in half.
• Put soap in bowl of water.
• Microwave for two minutes.
• Complete Alive Checklist for soap.
**Activity Extension**
Create an experiment based on your observations.
• Make a prediction.
Do all brands of soap bars expand?
• Create a control.
Ivory soap
• Creat variables.
Different brands of soap.
• Conduct experiment.
Record your results. Share with class.
How it works
No! Although growing is a part of the life cycle, since soap does not eat, breathe,
nor defend, it cannot be called alive. You have to answer, “Yes!” to every item on the
checklist in order to call something alive.
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Evaluate
What do you call something that never eats, grows,
breathes, or defends itself?
Complete Alive Checklist for a goldfish cracker.
Did You Know?
Ivory soap floats! In
1878 a large batch of the
soap was mixing when
a workman left for lunch.
He had left the machine
running which caused
air to be worked into the
mixture. As a result, the
soap floats!
Name one never living thing you can see at the beach.
Just for Fun
Solve the following riddle:
I am not alive, but I grow.
I do not have lungs, but I
need air. I do not have a
mouth, but water kills me.
What am I? Fire!
Assess
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Use the senses to make observations.
Collect data about living and non-living things.
Identify differences between living and non-living things.
Classify objects by their attributes (e.g., physical properties,
materials of which they are made).
NOAA Link
Look at pictures of living
things found in the
ocean at NOAA’s Ocean
Explorer’s photo gallery!
www.oceanexplorer.noaa.
gov
>>Gallery >> Living Ocean
SC.1.1.1 Collect, record, and organize data using simple tools, equipment,
and techniques safely.
SC.2.1.1 Develop predictions based on observations.
SC.2.1.2 Conduct a simple investigation using a systematic process safely
to test a prediction.
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Alive Checklist
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CHARACTERISTICS
ALIVE NOT ALIVE
(Now)
(Used to)
(Never)
Eat
Breathe
Grow
Defend
Alive Checklist
CHARACTERISTICS
CHARACTER-
ALIVE NOT ALIVE
(Now)
(Used to)
(Never)
NOT
ALIVE
ALIVE
U5-L1-A1: It’s (Not) Alive- Explore and Elaborate
ISTICS
Eat
(Now)
(Used to)
(Never)
Eat
Breathe
Breathe
Grow
Grow
Defend
Defend
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(Dead)
DeAd!
What do you call
something that
was once alive?
Alive!
~ Alive or Not
Dead-dead?
Something dead has stopped eating, growing, breathing, and
defending.
Ready?
Explore
Photocopy Alive Checklist (U5.L1.A1-page 14) (two per student).
Materials
Alive Checklist
(U5.L1.A1-p.14) (2 per student)
Weed (from schoolyard)
Piece of dead coral
Dried sea sponge
(1 per student)
Elaborate
Gather dead coral fragment from beach.
Do not break off living coral piece!
Evaluate
Buy sea sponges from craft or home improvement store.
Photocopy Alive Checklist (U5.L1.A1-page 14) (one per group).
Set?
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Standards
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• Unit 5-Lesson 1-Activity 1: No! No! Never-ever! (Never Alive)
• Unit 5-Lesson 2-All Activities: Alive and Eating
• Unit 5-Lesson 3-All Activities: Alive and Breathing
• Unit 5-Lesson 4-All Activities: Alive and Defending
• Unit 5-Lesson 5-All Activities: Alive and Growing
Go?
Develop Know-Wonder-Learn chart with students.
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Think about it...
How do you know something died?
Think About it
Is a mango seed alive or not
alive?
Engage
Pretend to die in a class circle!
• Inhale slowly.
• Exhale slowly.
Scientists
Say...
..carcass for a dead animal.
• Pretend to die!
How do you know something died?
NOAA Link
Contact the Pacific Island
Region Marine Mammal
Response Network if you
find a dead whale or dolphin
on the beach.
www.fpir.noaa.gov
>>Marine Mammal
Response
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Alive!
Dead-dead?
Think about it...
Are weeds pulled a week ago dead or alive?
Explore
Observe a pulled weed individually.
• Pull a few weeds from your schoolyard.
• Shake dirt off weed.
• Lie weed on its side inside classroom for one week.
• Complete Alive Checklist (U5.L1.A1-page 14) for the weed.
**Activity Extension**
Compare man-made plant with dead weed.
• Complete Alive Checklist for man-made plant.
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Explain
Scientists call never alive and dead things not alive. Unless you can write
“yes” in every check box, it is not alive.
How do you know something died?
CAREER CORNER
Chemists invent poisons to
kill weeds, but not plants
you want to grow.
It stops eating, breathing, growing, and defending!
Are weeds pulled a week ago dead or alive?
Dead! Your weed used to live. Aunty says since it no longer eats,
breathes, defends, and grows, it does not live.
INVENTION
CENTER
National Inventors Hall of
Fame includes John Fraz.
He invented Roundup®,, a
weed poison.
JUST FOR FUN
Check out this fun song
about the life cycle from a
classic children’s movie!
www.youtube.com
Search
“Lion King Circle of Life”
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Alive!
Dead-dead?
Think about it...
Are pieces of coral washed up on the beach dead or alive?
Elaborate
Observe piece of coral individually.
• Observe a piece of washed up coral.
• Fill out Alive Checklist.
**Activity Extension**
Repeat using a rock.
Compare never alive rock with dead coral.
How it works
Dead! Aunty says broken pieces washed ashore are skeletons from many dead coral
polyps. If you look closely, you may be able to see the tiny holes the polyps once lived.
The hard white skeletons made by the polyps are left behind after they die. Rocks on
the other hand, were never alive.
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Evaluate
What do you call something that was once alive?
Observe a dried sea sponge in pairs.
Complete an Alive Checklist (U5.L1.A1-page 14).
Interesting
Fact
Sponges are actual
animals. A live sponge
can reform into its original
shape after being pureed
in a blender!
Is dust alive, never alive, or dead?
Just for Fun
Say “sponges sit still
soaking salty seawater”
five times fast.
did you
know?
Assess
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Use the senses to make observations.
Ask questions about the world around them.
Collect data about living and non-living things.
Identify differences between living and non-living things.
Classify objects by their attributes (e.g., physical properties,
materials of which they are made).
SC.1.1.1 Collect, record, and organize data using simple tools, equipment,
and techniques safely.
SC.2.1.1 Develop predictions based on observations.
SC.2.1.2 Conduct a simple investigation using a systematic process safely
to test a prediction.
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Dust is made up of human
skin and hair, pollen,
mold, fungi, tiny particles
of wood, paint, fibers
from fabrics, plant and
vegetable matter, insect
parts, and more!
NOAA Link
Recently, the Hawaii
Undersea Research
Laboratory found new
species of sponges
thousands of feet below
the surface!
www.noaa.gov
Search
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Marine National
Monument” >> Latest
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