Contents
Key Stage 1
Meaning
Living things are things that are alive.
About Living Things
Living things can all grow and make new living things.
Examples
- Trees can grow and they can make new trees with their seeds.
- Flies can grow and make new flies by laying eggs.
- Humans can grow and make new humans called babies.
Used in a Sentence
- Trees are living things.
- Flies a living things.
- Humans are living things.
Be Careful!
Fire is not a living thing. You can start a fire without another fire but living things always need other living things to make them. Also fires can get bigger but it is not growing, it is spreading.
Key Stage 2
Anything which can move, respond, sense, grow, reproduce, excrete and get nutrition (food) is considered to be a living creature.
MRS GREN
- Movement - To change direction.
- Reponse - To behave differently when the environment changes.
- Sense - To be able to notice when the environment changes.
- Grow - Get get bigger.
- Reproduce - To make copies of itself.
- Excrete - To get rid of waste products.
- Nutrition - To take in new materials for growth and repair.