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This book provides materials to enable students aged 5-11 years to learn about the world around them through hands-on activities.
Life and Living Processes
Life and Living Processes
2.1: The Concept of ‘Living’
Whether at the beginning of their learning in science or later, children need to develop a concept of what it means to be alive. Like most complex concepts, the ideas of ‘life’ and ‘living’ are likely to be acquired gradually, as they are used to build knowledge and understanding in the context of widening experience.
Conventional ways of distinguishing living things by their life-processes (the so-called ‘signs of life’ such as feeding, respiration, response, movement, growth and reproduction) are not, on their own, effective at primary level. This is because in many of the organisms which children encounter, some of these processes either do not occur at all, or are not detectable by any means ...
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