Name:
Science with
Ms. Toso
Class Period:
CHAPTER 1
exploring &
classifying life
Objectives To Be Met Within
Chapter 1
Students should...
• apply scientific methods to problem solving
• distinguish between living and nonliving things
• identify what living things need to survive
• describe experiments about spontaneous generation
• explain how scientific methods led to the idea of biogenesis
• examine how chemical compounds found in living things might have
been formed
• describe how early scientists classified living things
• explain the system of binomial nomenclature
• demonstrate how to use a dichotomous key
MS-LS1-1: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are
made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
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Section 1:
What is Science?
What do you think? Brainstorm some characteristics that you think science involves.
Class consensus:
Using what I learned in science, I can:
Ask questions and define problems
Use math and computational thinking
Develop and use models
Construct explanations and design solutions
Plan and carry out investigations
Analyze and interpret data
Engage in argument from evidence
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate info
Vocab Card!
Scientific method:
Hypothesis:
Control:
Variable:
Theory:
Law:
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The Scientific Method
Using the statements below, fill in the flowchart of the scientific method.
Hypothesis not supported
Hypothesis supported
Revise hypothesis
Repeat many times
State the question
Draw conclusions
Form a hypothesis
Perform an experiment
Gather information
Analyze data
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Section 2:
Living Things
What do you think? Brainstorm characteristics you think something requires to be
considered “living.”
Class consensus:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Vocab Card!
Organism:
Cell:
Homeostasis:
Raw Material:
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Section 3:
Where Does Life Come From?
What do you think? Brainstorm some ideas!
Class consensus:
Vocab Card!
Spontaneous Generation:
Biogenesis:
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Francesco Redi (1668)
A
IN NA
TE LY
R ZI
DA PR NG
TA ETI &
! NG
Trial And Error
Lazzaro Spallanzani (1768)
D
US EV
IN ELO
G
P
M IN
OD G
EL &
S!
John Needham (1745)
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Alexander Oparin (1924)
P
C L
IN AR AN
VE R NI
ST YIN NG
IG G
AT O &
IO UT
NS
!
Louis Pasteur (1859)
Stanley Miller & Harold Urey (1953)
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Section 4:
How Are Living Things
Classified?
What do you think? Brainstorm some ideas!
Class consensus:
Vocab Card!
Phylogeny:
Kingdom:
Binomial Nomenclature:
Genus:
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D
US EV
IN ELO
G
P
M IN
OD G
EL &
S!
Sample Organizations
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Class
Phylum!
Kingdom!
Mammalia
Chordata
Animalia
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To Prepare For The Chapter Quiz
Ask yourself...
Can you answer the big question per
section?
Yes
Great! Keep
practicing!
No
Practice practice
practice!
Do you have the vocab cards filled in? Coolio! Quiz
yourself!
Check out a book,
ask a friend, or do
some research!
Can you complete the scientific
method flowchart from Section 1?
Great! Keep
practicing!
Practice practice
practice!
Can you identify the six characteristics
of life from Section 2?
Great! Keep
practicing!
Practice practice
practice!
Can you explain more than one
experiment from Section 3?
Neat! Practice tying
them together!
Time to review
these!
Can you organize animals based on
characteristics like in Section 4?
Great! Keep
practicing!
Practice practice
practice!
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