Teaching Science in Primary Grades

(BEED 21)

Name: Arjay Estorgio

Section: BEED 2-1

ACTIVITY 3
I. Humans
a. Describe the parts and functions of the sense organs of the human body.
Humans have a total of five senses through these sense organs. Our eyes is reponsible
in letting us see the world. It helps us to visualize how things actually look like and classify them
through color, size, shape and forms. Our ears let us hear the sound generated by mostly
everything in this world. From a simple scratch to the loudest sound that human are capable of
hearing. We use this sense organ to communicate especially with our surroundings and people
around us. Our skin which is considered as the largest organ is our way to feel the different
sensations that we can feel in our world. Through this, we can say that something is rough,
smooth, hot or cold. Our nose enables us to smell the numerous smell of our surroundings that
indicates a certain thing depending on its scent. Last but not the least, we have our tounge so
we can taste what we intake. It is a vital organ in survival because through taste, we can say if
something is edible or not. We can also use the things’ taste to classify them accordingly on
many purposes.
b. Enumerate healthful habits to protect the sense organs.
Taking care of our body is the foremost thing that we must to assure survival. There are
practical ways that we can keep our body healthy, especially our sense organs that help us to
understand and live with the world. To protect our eyes, avoiding too much exposure to
electronic devices, proper way of washing and not over scratching will surely keep us away from
dry, irritated and infected eye. Ears is somehow the least attended organ since it does not
require too much maintenance but what we can do to keep it healthy is just clean its outer part
and covering it when there’s too lound noises. Our skin is very sensitive organ since it is
exposed to different pollutants all the time as we live in this modern world. Taking a batch
regularly, avoiding too much sunlight exposure especially when it’s over 8am and not putting
any harmful chemical will keep this organ clean and healthy. What we do involuntarily when we
smell something bad is the simplest way to keep our nose healthy. Just by covering this organ
once we sensed something unusual will help us avoid this being irritated and even keep us
away from viruses and bacteria. Lastly, our mouth where our tounge is located is the most used
organ of our body. From speaking to eating, it’s our main asset to survive. To keep this healthy,
brushing our teeth and tounge, declining piercing and eating healthy food will not only keep this
organ healthy but our body as a whole.
II. Animals
a. Describe animals in their immediate surroundings.
The feature of an animal is quite dependent on their surroundings because living things tend to
adapt to the environment for survival. Animals living in land has arms and legs. These are used
to move from one place to another and gather/hunt food to eat. They have lungs to breathe and
have almost the same body system as humanity have. Some of them as well spend their time
mostly on the air where they’re using wings to fly for the same purpose as our arms and legs.
There are animals that live on and under the water. Instead of arms and legs, they have fins to
balance and create enough force to swim. Instead of lungs, they have gills to filter oxygen from
the water.
b. Identify the parts and functions of animals.
Most of the animals have almost the same body system like humans. They also have something
to use in sensing the world to undestand what’s going on with the surrounding. Animals in
general have eyes to see, nose to smell, skin to feel, ears to hear and tounge to taste. Land
animals differ by having arms and legs so they can move from one place to another. It is vital for
them due to constant change and limited resources in a habitat. Air animals have wings to glide
on the air and continuously fly, it enables them to broader see the world and also move to
abundant habitat. Water animals such as fish have fins to swim and balance, it enables them to
navigate the flow of the water on their desired direction. What makes them different from the
other two kind is their gills for respiration.
c. Classify animals according to body parts and use.
Animals that have lungs to breathe, arms and legs to move are considered as land animals.
They spend their time moslty in land in which they survive by utlizing these body parts in
gathering and even hunting food. Animals that have lungs to breathe but equipped with wings
are air animals. Flying is their main mode of action through their wings which enables them to
see the surroundings in larger scale so they can hunt and find for a better location. Animals that
have gills instead of lungs and fins instead of arms

III. Plants
a. Describe the parts of different kinds of plants.
In general, plants are grouped into two main categories, the flowering and non-flowering
plants. These groups of plants has something in common in terms of parts. Plants have roots
where it can stay still in a specific place and absorb nutrients from the soil that is needed for
growth and survival. It also has stem that helps it stand and hold the leaves and leaves that
absorbs the sunlight to have it converted into their food through photosynthesis. What makes
flowering plant different is its ability to produce flowers. Flowers serves as their main part for
reproduction that is most commonly through pollination.
b. State the importance of plants to humans.
Plants have been a great part of our history and the thing that actually fuels the
humanity. There living things provided humanity with all of our practical needs especially for
survival. Plants provides us air through breathe by coverting carbondioxide into oxygen. Plants
generate food either vegetables and fruits that contain every nutrients that our bodies should
have. Last but not the least, the woods from trees provided us shelter by turning it into our
homes.
c. Describe ways of caring and proper handling of plants.

IV. Compare living with nonliving things.

Living thing is the complete opposite of non-living thing. Anything that living can do is something
that non-living things cannot. Living things move, meaning it has the ability to move from one
place to another or change its position on its own, non-living cannot move unless there’s an
external force applied. Living things do respiration by getting oxygen to its body, non living
things don’t need oxygen to keep its condition. Living things can sense surrounding, it adapts
and reacts to changes on the environment. Living things grow overtime as cells do multiply as
time goes by while non-living things stay the same no matter how long time passed. Another
thing that makes living thing different it its ability to reproduce into completely the same kind,
unlike non-living things that will remain in the same number no matter how long. When
something excretes a waste, it is also an indicator that it is a living thing because it consumes
something to burn and absorb. Lastly, living things require proper nutrition to live by eating or
absorbing edible things from the surrounding while non-living things can stand on its own.

V. Identify the basic needs of

a. Humans
Humanity’s basic needs have evolved into something complex. From a simple require of
food and water into addition of electricity and devices. First of all, food is the most essential
among all. It supplies the nutrition that our body must have to function properly and avoid
illnesses. Water works like our fuel because it keeps us hydrated and also helps our body to
work well together. Electricity and electronic devices are the new basic needs that human must
have because it is badly needed in the modern world of technology to make life and be
educated. Lastly, shelter is another component of our needs where we live and rest. It is the
safest and most comfortable place for us to stay because everything we need is stored in there.
 b. plants
There are numeroud kind of plants but they’re generally the same about their needs to
live. There are plants living underwater, in soil and in sand. Plants needs a specific spot in
which they can grow their roots, it could be in soil, sand or sea beds, depending on its kind. This
place has nutritions that a plant needs that are gathered through their roots.
c. Animals
There are numerous kinds of Animals in this world but they also follow the same system in
terms of survival and needs. Animals’ needs is like humans before the advance technology.
Animals just need food to have proper nutrition, it could be eating other animals or plants. Most
of the animals require water to keep their body hydrated and habitat in which they can rest,
store food and even reproduce.

VI. Explain how living things depend on the environment to meet their basic needs.
The environment plays the biggest role in the life of every living thing. This is where everything
happens, from death to creation of a brand-new life. The environment has everything, it contains
the food needed, the perfect place for a habitat and something that animals to explore for them
to grow. A healthy environment has healthy living things because the quality of life is perfectly
reflected by the environment. If the environment got abused and damaged that’s what like
happening today, along its destruction is the negative effects of not gaining what we need from
the environment. If this undesirable event continued, we will end up to malnourished, miserable
or even an awful death due to starvation and illnesses.