Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Collect objects and classify into living and nonliving. Do observation sheets.

Objective: To help students understand that objects may be classified as living or nonliving things. To learn to systematically observe changes in growth.

Activity: Children collect stones, leaves, insects, weed, sea shells, twigs and seeds. Divide class into groups of four children. Children classify the objects into two groups: living and nonliving. Each group of four children labels its display. Children keep a record of their bean seed planting: I planted seeds on __________ I saw a stem on __________ I saw roots on __________ I saw leaves on __________ Children are given observation worksheets for their bean plants.
Observation sheets:
1. How does it grow?
2. How much water does it need? How can I tell?
3. How often do I have to turn it so it gets equal light? Why is that? Children keep a growth record of what their plant looks like each day (for 6 days), drawing the progress. Discuss growth of plants and other activities.

Assessment: Bean seed planting record, observation sheets, growth records