Somerville House Middle School Science On-line: Year Seven

About this Unit

You can get an overview of the Life and Living area of Science by looking at the concept map on the Big Picture page.
This Unit has three Modules, divided into a number of Activities.
On completion of the Unit you should be able to do the following:

• Explain to someone else the characteristics of living things as opposed to non-living and dead things.
• Design, perform, record and discuss an experiment to tell a living and non-living thing apart.
• Group living things into sub-groups according to their characteristics.
• Give a basic definition of an ecosystem.
• Explain how non-living and living parts of an ecosystem interact.