Les sciences naturelles

I teach the students Les Sciences Naturelles twice a week (usually on Wednesdays and Fridays).

For the last few weeks we have been looking at and talking about living and non-living things (les êtres vivants et non-vivants) and what all living things have in common (they move, they breathe, they reproduce, they grow and they need water and food to survive). We have formulated these traits into questions that we asked to determine: est-ce que c'est un être vivant? for various objects.  We also had some interesting conversations about some of the less obvious objects (ie. a picked apple, a seed, an egg).

Here is an example of some of the things we discussed last week.

Today the students chose something that could be found in the school yard, drew it and then answered the five questions to conclude whether it is a living thing or not.  Next class we will focus on what all living things need in order to survive.