CH 1 - Living and Non-Living Things
CH 1 - Living and Non-Living Things
CH 1 - Living and Non-Living Things
VOCABULARY
Living things
Non-living things
Breathe
Reproduce
ACTIVITY
Look at the following picture and observe. In the given picture, some things are given to
us by nature. Some of the things are not given to us by nature. Identify and name which
of the given picture represents natural things and man made things in the space given
in the picture.
Natural and man-made things
When we look around our house, school or garden, we find many different things.
There are many plants, animals, insects, benches, stones, cars, cycles, soil, sun, water,
etc., around us. Some of
these are man-made and
others are natural things.
Natural things can be classified as living and non-living. Some things have life. They are
called living things.
Some of them do not have life. They are called non-living things.
Do you Know
• Living feel
Plants cannot move like animals. They cannot go from one place to another. But
their parts show movement. The sunflower turns its face towards the sun. The plants
which grow in a shade bend towards the light. Some plants like touch-me-not show
slow movement while touched.
Have you ever seen a table or TV or car showing movement? No, non-living things
cannot move unless a push or pull is applied on them.
Similarly, a baby owl comes out of an egg and grows into an adult owl.
Non-living things cannot grow such as a pencil, book, table, and chair cannot show
any change in size, weight or shape.
We get our food form plants and animals. Plants make their food in their lives using
air, water and minerals of soil in the presence of sunlight. This process of making
food by plants is called photosynthesis.
Activity
1. Close your nose with your fingers. How do you
feel? You feel as if you will die. It is so because by
closing your nose, you cannot breathe.
2. Take two
small
plants.
Cover
one plant
with glass
jar and leave
the other
plant in open.
You will see
that the plant
covered by a
jar dies in a few days because it does not get air to breathe.
Plants also feel but do not have sense organs. This will be very clear by taking an
example of the plant touch-me-not. As soon as you touch its leaves, its leaves start
folding. Sunflower always faces towards the sun because it feel sunlight.
If you throw a toy or any other non-living thing, it will not cry or feel pain because
non-living things cannot feel.
Like animals, plants also reproduce. Most of the plants reproduce through seeds.
Some plants also grow from stems or roots.
Imagine if coins could produce baby coins or chairs could produce baby chairs. No,
they cannot. They are non-living.
In Text Questions
TO THE TEACHER
Teachers should explain the difference between living and non-living things by using differ-
ent things present in the class.
Chapter Summary
• There are two types of things around us – man-made things and natural things.
• Living things have special features:
a. Living things move
b. Living things grow
c. Living things need food
d. Living things breathe
e. Living feel
f. Living things reproduce
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
A B
2. True or False:
State whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
(b) Identify the odd one out: (Pictures of options can be given)
1. Tree
2. Cloud
3. Zebra
1. Process of Photosynthesis
2. Life Cycle of owl
7. Describe:
Write the characteristic features of living things. Explain any one in detail.
K L P H G B L I
S R L S T O N E
V G A C A T F B
I M N F D L G I
U P T A B L E R
B E E T L E R D
9. Life Skills
a. Given below is the picture of a house and its surroundings. Observe the picture and
answer the given questions.
Q1. How many non-living things are shown in the picture? Name them.
Q2. Are flowers shown in the picture living or non-living? Give reason for your answer.
b. You have learnt that living things feel. How would you treat your pet at home so that it feels loved?
1. Sarita got a beautiful car. She wanted to keep on his study table. As there was no space
on the study table, she started crying. She said, “why this table can’t grow in size?. Her
mother came and explained her why table cannot grow.
2. A student takes two pots and put soil in them. In the first pot, he sow a plant and water it
daily. In the second pot, he sow a pencil and water it daily.
a. Which one of the two: pencil or plant will grow and why?
11. Project
Collect pictures from the old newspapers and divide them into living and non-living things and
paste them on sheets of chart paper.
Note: All the images given in the chapter are taken from Internet and needs to be
redrawn.