How Living Things Move
How Living Things Move
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How Living Things Move
Open with familiar examples such as walking, flying and swimming. Keep the idea broad and concrete.
Our learning goal
I can describe how living things move using nouns and verbs.
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How can animals move?
Use the word cloud to collect simple movement words or examples such as walk, hop, fly and swim. Read a few aloud and link them to the learning goal.
Living things need things
Living things grow
Living things need energy
Living things need water and air
Living things reproduce
This slide anchors the review from the getting ready section before focusing on movement.
Do all living things move?
Animals move to find:
food
water
shelter
Plants do not move to find these things.
Keep language simple. Avoid going into plant tropisms; for this lesson, contrast animal movement with plants making their own food.
Plants and animals are different
Plants make their own food.
Animals move from place to place.
That is why we often see animals moving more than plants.
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Who moves to find food?
Plants
Animals
Rocks
Clouds
Checks the review idea from slides 2 to 4: animals move to find food, water and shelter; plants do not move to find these things.
Do plants move to find food?
Yes
No
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Movement
Movement means going from one place to another, or moving your body.
Living things can move in different ways.
Introduce the word movement clearly and add it to the class vocabulary chart.
Many ways to move
Use spoken examples here: a bird flies, a fish swims, a person walks. Keep the slide light and image-led.
Where living things move
On land
walk
run
hop
crawl
In water or in the air
swim
float
fly
glide
Emphasise place as well as action: some movement happens on land, some in water, and some in the air.
Australian animals move too
A kangaroo hops on land
A snake slithers on land
A jellyfish moves in water
A bird flies in the air
Use examples that match the videos or animal cards available in class.
A new word: glide
A sugar glider can glide.
It stretches skin between its arms and legs.
It moves smoothly through the air.
Model the action with outstretched arms so children connect the word to the movement.
A new word: pulsate
A jellyfish can pulsate.
Its body squeezes and relaxes.
This helps it move in water.
Use hands to show squeeze and relax. Keep the explanation physical and simple.
Movement words are verbs
Words like hop, crawl, glide and pulsate are verbs.
A verb tells what is happening.
This keeps the science lesson tied to describing movement accurately with simple grammar support from the teacher plan.
Which word means moving smoothly in the air?
Crawl
Swim
Glide
Hop
Uses the new vocabulary from slides 7 to 11. Distractors are real movement words from the same block.
Ways living things move
A sugar glider can glide in the air. A jellyfish can pulsate in water. These movement words are verbs.
Children fill in the two new movement words and the grammar word taught in this block.
Nouns and verbs
Verb
A verb tells:
what is happening
how something moves
Noun
A noun names:
a person
a place
an animal
a thing
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A sentence about movement
I see a kangaroo.
A kangaroo hops.
Kangaroo is a noun.
Hops is a verb.
Use this model sentence slowly and point to the animal name and movement word.
Another movement sentence
A snail crawls.
Snail is a noun.
Crawls is a verb.
Give one more simple example so children see the same pattern again.
We can describe movement
We can name the animal.
We can name the movement.
That helps us describe living things clearly.
Link back to the learning goal: describing movement with a noun and a verb.
In 'A snail crawls', which word is a verb?
A
snail
crawls
snail crawls
Checks whether pupils can spot the action word in a simple sentence modelled on slides 12 to 15.
Noun and verb
I see a kangaroo. A kangaroo hops. Kangaroo is a noun. Hops is a verb.
Echoes the exact sentence pattern from the content slides so pupils practise naming the animal and the movement.
What we learned
Living things move in different ways.
Animals can move on land, in water, and in the air.
We use nouns and verbs to describe these movements.
Use the class anchor chart here if available and revisit key examples from the lesson.
What is one thing you learned today?
Expected answers may name an animal and how it moves, or say that animals move on land, in water or in the air, or that nouns and verbs help describe movement.
How did this lesson feel for you?
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What movement word will you remember?
Invite short reflective answers such as hop, glide, pulsate, or a favourite animal example. The aim is reflection, not correctness.
Glossary
living thing - something that grows and needs energy, water and air
movement - a way something goes from one place to another or moves its body
animal - a living thing that can move to find what it needs
plant - a living thing that makes its own food
noun - a word that names a person, place, animal or thing
verb - a word that tells what is happening
glide - to move smoothly through the air
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Glossary
pulsate - to squeeze and relax again and again
hop - to move by jumping on feet or legs
crawl - to move slowly close to the ground
swim - to move through water
fly - to move through the air
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