The document discusses other living things besides plants and animals. It describes two hands-on activities that students will do to observe and analyze different types of organisms. The first activity involves using a magnifying lens to look at various specimens and determine if they are plants. The second activity has students collecting specimens from the school grounds and comparing them. Students are asked to classify the organisms and research their characteristics. The document suggests that fungi, algae, and bacteria are major groups of other living things that are different from plants and animals.
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Qtr 2 Module 3 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animal
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Qtr 2 Module 3 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animal
The document discusses other living things besides plants and animals. It describes two hands-on activities that students will do to observe and analyze different types of organisms. The first activity involves using a magnifying lens to look at various specimens and determine if they are plants. The second activity has students collecting specimens from the school grounds and comparing them. Students are asked to classify the organisms and research their characteristics. The document suggests that fungi, algae, and bacteria are major groups of other living things that are different from plants and animals.
The document discusses other living things besides plants and animals. It describes two hands-on activities that students will do to observe and analyze different types of organisms. The first activity involves using a magnifying lens to look at various specimens and determine if they are plants. The second activity has students collecting specimens from the school grounds and comparing them. Students are asked to classify the organisms and research their characteristics. The document suggests that fungi, algae, and bacteria are major groups of other living things that are different from plants and animals.
In this module, you will start examining life forms other than the plants and animals you studied in Grades 3 through 6. You will begin with the macroscopic forms or parts that you can see and move to the barely noticeable ones, using a magnifying lens. If your school has a microscope you can observe the truly microscopic forms as well. These cannot be seen by the naked eye, not even through magnifying lenses. These life forms are in the soil, water and air all around us. They are on our body and inside it, on the food we eat and the things we use. Many are useful to humans while some are harmful and may cause disease. In studying them we develop inquiry skills and use a powerful observation device, the microscope, if available. You and your classmates will perform two hands-on activities in this module, which entail observing, recording, communicating by drawing and writing, going out in the school grounds to collect specimens, inferring and answering questions.
What are the other living things besides plants and animals? Which are useful to us? Which are harmful?
Suggested time allotment: 4 hours MODULE 3
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 2 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals
Activity 1 Are These Also Plants?
Objectives In this activity, you will: 1. Observe life forms other than those you studied from Grades 3 through 6, 2. Use a magnifying lens to observe them, 3. Share what you know about these life forms with classmates and groupmates, 3. Compare them with known living things studied in Grades 3 to 6.
Materials Needed
Live specimens from teacher Magnifying lens
Procedure
1. Look* at the live specimen shown by your teacher which is like the photo below: Q1. Is it a plant? _______________________
Q2. What is its name? __________________
Q3. What is the reason for your answer in Q1? _____________________________ ____________________________________ Photo by A. Encarnacion 2012
*Warning: Do not touch with your bare hands, taste or smell, especially the kinds that are not eaten. These may be poisonous.
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 3 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals
2. Look at the second live specimen your teacher will show you. It is similar to the photo below:
Rotor, A.V. (2010) http://avrotor.blogspot.com/2010/03 downloaded 12 March 2012.
Q4. Is it a plant? _______________
Q5. What is its name? _______________________________
Q6. What is your reason for your answer in Q4? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________
3. Compare the two.
Q7. How are they different? ___________________________
Q8. How are they alike? ______________________________
Q9. Do you know of other living things like the two above? _____________. If so, describe these living things. _______________________________
Q10. How did you know about them? ___________________
Q11. Write their names if you know them. ______________
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 4 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals 4. Observe the third specimen to be shown by your teacher. She will show you something like this photo grabbed from an internet source.
http://www.treeboss.net/tree-trunk-splotches.htm downloaded 21 March 2012
Q12. What do you think it is? _______________
Q13. Is it a plant? ________________
Q14. Give a reason for your answer in Q13.______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________
5. Observe these three other things your teacher prepared for you to observe:
a.
b. Or, c.
And, d.
Warning: Do not touch (a), (b), or (c) with your bare hands. Do not inhale or taste them either. Some sensitive individuals may be allergic to molds and bacterial growths. Photo credits: potato by A. Encarnacion, old banana peeling and bread by R. Reyes, and http://www.hawaii.edu/reefalgae/in vasive_algae/chloro/enteromorpha_fl exuosa.htm downloaded 12 March 2012 for the algae.
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 5 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals
Q18. (a) _______________________ Q19. (b or c) ___________________________
Q20. (d) ________________________
7. Discuss your answers with your classmates and teacher in class.
What you saw are also living things. There are living things or organisms that cannot be readily identified by the usual parts of plants we recognize like roots, stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits though they may have the green color and some plant-like parts. There are also living things that we can see only when we use magnifying lenses. Tomorrow, we will go out and look for more of these kinds of living things which are not like the plants we learned about in the lower grades. Bring plastic gloves, plastic bags or clear glass jars, at least one each.
Activity 2 What Other Living Things are Found in the School Grounds?
Objectives In this activity, you will:
1. Hunt for life forms that are doubtfully plants, 2. Collect specimens of these life forms, 3. Observe these life forms using a magnifying lens, 4. Describe/draw them, 5. Describe their habitats,
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 6 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals 6. Infer their needs, 7. Compare with others observed in the previous activity, and 8. Group together those that have similarities.
Materials Needed
Clear plastic bag or glass jar with cover Plastic gloves Forceps, tweezers or tongs Magnifying lens
Procedure
1. Bring the first three materials listed when you go out into the school grounds. Look for other things that are plant-like in the school grounds. Your teacher will suggest where to go and what to collect.
2. Go back to the classroom and observe what you collected with a magnifying lens.
Q1. Describe what you see. Draw it.
Q2. Describe the place where you found it. ______________________________
Q3. What do you think it needs to live and grow? ________________________ ____________________________________________________________________
Q4. Does it look like any of the organisms you saw yesterday? ___________ If so, which one? ___________________________
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 7 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals Q5. How are they different from the living things you already know about and studied in the lower grades?
For your homework, find out from reference books and the internet under which big groups the living things you studied belong. Find out the other members of these groups, the characteristics they exhibit, their uses to humans, as well as negative effects. Put the information you collected in a table like the one below:
Name of organism Big group/ Other Examples Characteristics Uses/ Benefits Harmful Effects
What are the similarities among these groups? __________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
How are they different from each other? ________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
How are these big groups different from the groups of animals and plants studied in Grades 3-6? ________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
Discuss in class, with your classmates and teacher, the beneficial and harmful effects of members of these groups.
What you studied in this module are the big groups of Fungi, Algae and Bacteria which are different from the two big groups of Animals and Plants studied in Grades 3-6. You did not study many other members of these groups however. There are many more interesting members of these groups which you will learn about in the higher grades. Together, these groups plus the groups of plants and animals studied in the previous grades make up the living world.
We are a part of this living world. We have an obligation to protect it and ensure its survival.
If your school has a microscope, you can do Activity 3.
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 8 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals
Activity 3 What Do These Living Things Look Like Under the Microscope?
Objectives In this activity, you will:
1. Prepare slides of the growths on old banana peeling, and/or bread mold, lumot, and the bacterial colony you saw in Activities 1 and 2, 2. Observe these living things using a microscope, 3. Draw and describe these living things, 4. Be able to label the parts and describe the function of these parts based on reference photographs or drawings and library/internet research.
Materials Needed
Slides and cover slips Dissecting needle (may be improvised) Dropper Cotton, gauze or clean absorbent cloth Clean water
Procedure
1. Get a small part of the white, cottony growth on the decomposing banana. 2. Spread it with a needle until only a thin layer is on the middle of the glass slide. 3. With the dropper, wet the spot with a drop of water. 4. Cover with the cover slip by putting down one side first and gently laying down the cover slip until it is flat over the specimen.
Grade 7 Science: Living Things and Their Environment 9 Other Living Things Besides Plants and Animals 5. Place it on the microscope stage just under the low power objective (LPO).
Q1. Draw what you see.
6. Focus until clear, then shift to the high power objective (HPO).
Q2. Draw what you see.
Q3. Describe what you see under the LPO and HPO.
Q4. Label the parts based on a reference photo or drawing your teacher shows you.
7. Do the same for the growth on the bread, lumot, Z on the potato.
8. Discuss your findings with your teacher and classmates.