This document provides information about the 7 life processes: movement, photosynthesis, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, and growth. It discusses these processes in plants and animals, provides examples of each, and directs students to videos and activities to learn more. The key ideas are that living things must perform certain functions to stay alive, such as taking in nutrients, responding to stimuli, reproducing, and releasing waste and energy.

1. Life Processes
Science Unit 1

2. Characteristics of life
Write down what this video is about. What do you think we will be studying in science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy60Bq
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juxLuo-
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3. Watch the power point about the 7 life processes
Life Processes.ppt
Let’s review:
The 7 processes that make something alive are:
MRS NERG!

4. Answer the question in your notebook:
What does it mean to be alive?
Life Process- A function that a living thing performs to stay alive and produce more of
it’s own kind.
Read page A6 in the text book
Why does the yellow duck have more in common with the grass than the bronze duck?
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/animals/life/
Meet MRS NERG

5. MOVEMENT – Release Energy
Photosynthesis Movement
Reproduction
Growth
PLANTS ANIMALS
Plants release energy
through their life
processes like growth
and photosynthesis.
Animals release energy by
movement.

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pD68uxRLkM&inde
x=75&list=PL1x86IFIADThNSawwEju8dnQBwazNEn6P
PHOTOSYNTHESIS

7. Photosynthesis- The process plants
use to make food.
A plant needs light
energy from the sun
plus carbon
dioxide(CO2), plus
water. The plant will
make sugar and oxygen.

8. REPRODUCTION- To make
more
Living things must reproduce because they would
otherwise go extinct.
baby
child
adolescent
adult

9. Reproduction
in Animals
• Creates more of the same species
Reproduction
in plants
• Pollination, seed dispersal, germination

10. SENSITIVITY- reacting to your
surroundings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6-
evXswaQs&list=PL1x86IFIADThNSawwEju8dnQBwazNEn6P&index=75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTcVNyOhUc
Stimulus and response

11. 1. Stimulus- Anything that causes a living thing to react
2. External Stimulus- Anything in an organism’s environment that causes it to
react. Example: ________________
3. Internal Stimulus- Anything within an organism that causes it to react.
Example: Hunger
Plants • React to light, water,
weather
Animals
• Use their 5 senses to
react

12. A cold wind
blows on you
A plant needs
water
A moth detects
a bat’s sound
waves
A dog sees a
can of food
opening
How do living things detect stimuli?
Venus Flytrap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1HkzfnPPoU

13. NUTRITION-Taking in nutrients
Makes seeds
Moves water
from roots
and leaves
Suck up water
and minerals
Makes food through
Photosynthesis. It needs
water + sun + carbon
dioxide

14. Digestive System- Breaks down food and gives
nutrients to the body and gives animals energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwrsL-lCZYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzwbipJuAA
&t=44s

15. With a partner, read A32 to A36. Copy and complete the
chart below in your notebook. Hint: Use the chart on A 33
to help.
Main Idea: The digestive system breaks down food and gives
nutrients to the body which gives us energy.
Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3
Answer these questions:
• What category of food do you eat most of?
• Least of?
• What can you do to make your diet better?

16. EXCRETION- Creates waste
and RESPIRATION- breathing
Respiratory System- A group of organs that
work together to bring air in and push it back
out of the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giiDDBJVQ
U

17. Beats in 15
sec
Beats in 1
min
Breaths in 15
sec
Breaths in 1
min
At rest
After exercise
PULSE BREATHING
HOW YOU RATE Activity Page A 39
Read A 40-A41 in text with a partner.
Compare and contrast how fish and humans breathe.
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18. EXCRETION=CREATES WASTE
ANIMALS PLANTS
• CREATE SOLID
WASTE
• CARBON DIOXIDE
CREATED
THROUGH
BREATHING
• CREATE OXYGEN
THROUGH
PHOTOSYNTHESIS

19. GROWTH- The development of a living
thing often by growing in size and
maturity.
Animals need to grow to reproduce , care for selves and
be productive.
Question: How is your growth similar to a seed growing?
Read text A18-21
Complete questions: 1,3, 4, 5 on page A23 with a prtner