**Lesson Plan: Basic Science and Technology (Primary 6)**
**Topic: Living and Non-Living Things**
**Duration**: 60 minutes
**Objective**:
- Students will be able to differentiate between living and non-living things.
- Students will understand the characteristics of living things.
- Students will classify various items as living or non-living based on learned characteristics.
**Materials Needed**:
- Chart paper
- Markers
- Picture cards or cutouts of various living and non-living things
- Notebook and pens
- Interactive whiteboard or projector (optional)
**Introduction (10 minutes)**:
1. **Greeting and Warm-Up**:
- Greet the students and briefly discuss their experiences with nature or their pets to capture their interest.
- Ask: “What do you think are living and non-living things?”
2. **Brainstorming**:
- Write ‘Living Things’ and ‘Non-Living Things’ on the board.
- Ask students to name items they think belong in each category and write them on the board.
**Teaching and Activities (30 minutes)**:
1. **Defining Living and Non-Living Things** (10 minutes):
- Explain that living things breathe, grow, move, reproduce, and need food and water.
- Non-living things do not have these characteristics.
- Show a short educational video (if possible) that defines and explains living and non-living things.
2. **Characteristics of Living Things** (10 minutes):
- Discuss characteristics in detail, using visual aids and examples:
- **Movement**: Animals move, plants grow towards light.
- **Growth**: Plants grow from seeds, animals from babies.
- **Reproduction**: Animals and plants create offspring.
- **Respiration**: Breathing in animals, gas exchange in plants.
- **Sensitivity**: Responding to the environment.
- **Excretion**: Removal of waste from their bodies.
3. **Interactive Group Activity**: Sorting Game (10 minutes):
- Divide students into small groups.
- Hand out picture cards or cutouts of various items (both living and non-living).
- Ask each group to sort the cards into two categories: Living and Non-Living.
- Move around the room, guiding and assisting groups where necessary.
**Assessment (15 minutes)**:
1. **Class Discussion**:
- Each group presents their sorted items.
- Discuss and correct any mistakes, emphasizing why certain items belong to living or non-living categories based on characteristics discussed.
2. **Worksheet Activity**:
- Distribute a worksheet where students need to identify living and non-living things and list characteristics of living things.
- Review answers together as a class.
**Conclusion (5 minutes)**:
- Recap the main points of the lesson:
- Characteristics of living things.
- How to differentiate between living and non-living things.
- Allow students to ask any final questions.
**Homework Assignment**:
- Ask students to observe their surroundings at home and list at least five living and five non-living things.
- Write a short paragraph on why they classified these items as living or non-living.
**Reflection**:
- After the lesson, reflect on what went well and what could be improved for future lessons. Make note of any students who may need additional support or have shown exceptional understanding.
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**Note**: This lesson plan is designed to be flexible and can be adapted to fit the resources available and the specific needs of the students.