Is a flame alive?

Today’s Key Questions:

1. How can my textbook be a better resource?
2. How can I apply my knowledge of living organisms to decide if something is living or not?

By the end of class, I should be able to:

• defend whether or not something is a living organism
• identify external structures of plants and animals
• use my textbook as a resource

August Process Words

• Compose
• Illustrate
• Contribute
• Elaborate

Class Opening:

1. If it is your day to contribute to the class data, please do so first.
2. Please comment on the blogs of your classmates.

Textbook - how can your textbook be used as a reference?

• What is the purpose of the table of contents?
• What resources are located in the back of the book?
• When I’m reading a chapter, how can I make the exercise an active one?

Is a flame alive?

Is the flame alive?

Use the common characteristics of living organisms to defend your answer.


Resource: page 10 of Cells & Heredity
- turn in your halfsheet and then open to page 10
- Modify your answer as necessary
- What questions do you still have?