This theory was given to me by my sister, who is an awesome mother who happens to be an ex-primary school teacher and she’s always talking to her kids about living and non-living. Super helpful.
Millie’s class had been talking about this and the whole concept was difficult her many to get their heads around, so we decided to look into this at home.
So my hypothesis to prove was – This plant is nonliving:
This stumped us a lot to start out with because many of the key indicators (moving around, breathing, growing etc) were not immediately present, so we had to learn a bit about plants.
We also started to talk to her about other non-living items, like rocks and even our house. We decided they were non-living.
The video we watched (below) was key for us. It lists four key characteristics of living things:
1. The grow
2. The reproduce
3. They adapt to their environment
4. They eat
I’m not saying these are the only characteristics, but they certainly were enough for us.
So our results in this experiment were that plants are living, and we disproved the theory that plants are non-living.
Here’s a video to help explain living vs. non-living
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