Alive

Key Stage 1

Meaning

Living things are things that are alive.

About Living Things

Living things can all grow, take in food and water, move, sense changes to the world around them, get rid of waste 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 spread and they can go out, but they do not grow.

Plants can move. For example their flowers and leaves can aim towards the sun.

Key Stage 2

Anything which can move, respond, sense, grow, reproduce, excrete and get nutrition (food) is considered to be a living creature.

Adjective: Alive

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.