Lesson - 1

Living Things and Non-Living Things

Introduction
 We are surrounded
with various Living Things
Around
and Non-Living
things.

 Natural Non-Living
things are Soil, Rock, Natural Man-made
Water, Stone, Air, Things Things
Mountains etc.,

Living Non-Living Non-Living

Things Things Things
Characteristics of Living Things
Six Characteristics of Living Things
 Food and Water – Living Things eat food. They need food
to stay alive to grow.

 Grow and Die – They grow and change.

 Breathes Air – They need air to stay alive.

 Feel – Responding to the environment – They are

sensitive to touch, light, sound, heat, cold etc.,

 Moving from one place to another – in search of food and

water – Move on their own.

 Reproduce – gives birth to their young ones or lays eggs.

How and What food do they eat?
 Human beings and Plants make their
own food.

 Animals cannot make their own food.

They eat plants or other animals to
live.
How do living things move ?
 Although the plants cannot move from one
place to other they are living things.

Human beings & Walk legs

many animals
Birds Fly wings

Fish Swim fins

Insects Creep limbs

How and What do living things
breathe?
 Human beings and animals breathe in Oxygen and
breathe out Carbon-dioxide from air.
 Plants breathe in Carbon-dioxide and breathe out Oxygen.

Human beings Nose

Fish Gills
Plants Tiny pores in the leaf
called Stomata
Insects Air holes in their body
called Spiracles.
Some animals Nostrils
How they feel to the changes
around them?
 Human beings feel with their sense organs
- Eyes, Nose, Ears, Tongue, Skin

 Cockroaches feel their changes around

them with a body part called Antennae.

 Plants grow healthy according to their

environment . Touch-Me-Not (Mimosa)
plant leaves are closed as soon as they are
touched. Lotus / Sunflower opens out at
sunrise and closes at night.
Reproduction – making of their own
kind
 Human beings, animals like cows, goats,
monkeys, elephants, lion, tiger Sharks and
Whales – gives birth to their young one.
 Birds, Fish, Crocodile, Snakes, Lizard – lays
eggs.
 Plants reproduce
 Produces seeds which grow into a new plant
 Some produce new plants from their stems
 Some plants produce from their roots
 Some plants produce from their leaves
Non-Living Things which were once
living
 Dry leaves
 Wood
 Leather
 Feather
 Fossil
 Grains
 Pulses
 Cotton etc.,