Animals (Continuation)
WEEK 2
Topic: Animals
Objectives: At the end of this lesson, pupils should be able to:
1. State reasons why animals are living things.
2. Compare plants and animals as living things
3. List the characteristics of living things
Resources and materials:
Scheme of work
Online information
Instructional material: Specimen of animals in our locality.
CONTENT
Characteristics of living things
There are seven activities which make organisms different from non-living things. These are the seven characteristics of living organisms.
1. Nutrition
Living things take in materials from their surroundings that they use for growth or to provide energy. Nutrition is the process by which organisms obtain energy and raw materials from nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
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