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Living or Nonliving?

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What Makes Something Alive?

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Evidence Table

Directions: Classify each example as living, nonliving, or uncertain. Record a specific observation, connect it to a characteristic of life, and write a question when you have one.

Example
Dog
Tree
Mushroom
Fire
Toy robot
Cloud
Crystal
Seed
Classification
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Specific observation
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Characteristic of life connected to the evidence
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Question
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Think Like a Scientist

Observation or inference? An observation is something you detect or measure. An inference is an explanation based on observations.

Observation: “The seed has a small root growing.”

Inference: “The seed is beginning to grow.”

Write one observation and one inference about an example in the table.
Initial claim: Are all living things made of one or more cells? State your claim and support it with one observation or idea.

Exit Check

Complete each part using specific evidence.

1. One characteristic of life is ________________________________________________.
2. I classify __________________________ as __________________________.
3. My specific evidence is:
4. One question I have about cells and living things is:

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