Today Room 9 have explored a definition for living and non-living things, what amazing thinkers! The change and development of these types of discussions over the year has been amazing to be a part of.
We talked about some of our ideas about what defines something as living or non-living. We watched this video of Cookie Monster's definition. Then we sorted pictures of objects. Our most interesting discussions were around fire, the sun, seeds. We talked about how a scientist would define a living organism and how writers sometimes talk about non-living things as if they are alive, such as rivers and fire. We made lots of connections with our learning about growth and change over time from Term 2, many of the things that we said were not living do grow and change but not from those things purposefully eating.
From a scientific point of view the sun and fire are not living as they are not made up of cells. Some children asked about Earth, if the Sun is living then Earth could be because it changes and grows. Other children recognised that these things didn't really breathe and eat.
What about seeds? We had the most amazing discussion, the children talked for a long time about the potential life of the seed. We connected this with our poppy growing, some seeds did not germinate and others do because seed can die (become sterile). Seeds do live off their stored energy.
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