Smartboard lesson plan

1. Distinguishing between
living and nonliving objects
By: Paige Dempsey

2. Lesson Objects
1. Understand and define the difference between living
and nonliving objects
2. Knowing which objects are placed in each
ecosystem.
3. Understanding the concept of energy in the
environment

3. The characteristics of something
living or nonliving
One activity in the notebook lesson is having
characteristics of living and the student has to
check which one is living and X out the nonliving
characteristics.
• The options can be the topic of the week in the
science classroom.
• Animals, trees, the environment
• EX: living things are/ do…
• Die
• Eat
• Live forever
• The students would check die and eat and X out
live forever.
The other activity is sorting the
characteristic’s into the two sections
of living and nonliving.
• This activity can be adapted to
other topics like sort between
mammals and reptiles.
• The set up is having a word bank
and two sections where students
can place the words in.

4. The characteristics of something
living or nonliving
• The creator of this lesson plan
moved to picture methods of
learning the characteristics.
• They have the children circle the
living things in red and the
nonliving things in blue.
• Going along with my choice of
learning about mammals and
reptiles, they can have a
picture of these species in their
environments and have them
circle from that.
The next activity is a picture
of the objects and a line next
to that.
• The objective is for the
children to recognize the
object out of the context
they are naturally in and
the children must label
them living or nonliving.

5. The concept of energy
• The concept of energy would be taught through the
lesson and readings from the textbook. In the lesson
plan, energy is tested by having key words about
energy missing from the sentences. There is a word
bank on the side to help the students.
• The next activity is putting the process of energy in
order by photos.

6. The lesson plan as a whole
• This lesson was geared towards science and the subject
of living and nonliving objects but the activities done in
the lesson can apply to more. Checking yes or no is the
main focal point to see if students understand the concept
and the topic can be whatever the teacher decides. Filling
in the blanks and sorting into charts are timeless
activities to see if the students can put the information to
use. What I pulled from this lesson plan is the activities
can be applied if they have two contradicting or opposite
subjects.

7. Link to my lesson plan
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