Format
This program involves a journey with Toby the Tiger as he goes throughout his day. Along the way he learns about living and non-living things. A video is shared, along with an interactive poem.
Objectives
Students will better understand what makes a living thing or a non-living thing.
Students will be able to separate things that were living and are no longer living.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NS.K-4.3 LIFE SCIENCE
As a result of activities in grades K-4, all students should develop understanding of
The characteristics of organisms
Life cycles of organisms
Organisms and environments
State Standards
Ohio Science Standards, K-2 Band
Life Sciences
A. Discover that there are living things, non-living things and pretend things, and describe the basic needs of living things (organisms).
B. Explain how organisms function and interact with their physical environment.
C. Describe similarities and differences that exist among individuals of the same kind of plants and animals.
Life Sciences
Characteristics and
Structure of Life
1. Explore differences between living and non-living things (e.g., plant-rock).
2. Discover that stories (e.g., cartoons, movies, comics) sometimes give plants and animals characteristics they really do not have (e.g., talking flowers).
Heredity 3. Describe how plants and animals usually resemble their parents.
4. Investigate variations that exist among individuals of the same kind of plant or animal.
Diversity and
Interdependence of
Life
5. Investigate observable features of plants and animals that help them live in different kinds of places.
6. Investigate the habitats of many different kinds of local plants and animals and some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and each other in our community.