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This document discusses the characteristics of living things and how they respond to stimuli and reproduce. It notes that living things need air, food, water to survive and grow. They move and respond to stimuli. It provides examples of how animals sense their surroundings and how plants like the touch me not fold their leaves in response to touch. It also discusses reproduction in animals like oviparous animals that lay eggs and viviparous animals that give birth, as well as reproduction in plants through seed germination and vegetative parts.
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Palnt & Animal PPT-2

This document discusses the characteristics of living things and how they respond to stimuli and reproduce. It notes that living things need air, food, water to survive and grow. They move and respond to stimuli. It provides examples of how animals sense their surroundings and how plants like the touch me not fold their leaves in response to touch. It also discusses reproduction in animals like oviparous animals that lay eggs and viviparous animals that give birth, as well as reproduction in plants through seed germination and vegetative parts.
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INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT

MIDDLE SECTION
CLASS 5 - SCIENCE

PLANTS AND ANIMALS


Lesson 1
MODULE 3
❖ CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS
1. They need air, food and water to survive.

2. They grow in size.

3. They move

4. They feel or respond to stimuli

5. They reproduce

6. They breathe
4.LIVING THINGS RESPOND TO
STIMULI
RESPONSE TO STIMULI IN ANIMALS
Sense organs in animals help them to feel the changes in their
surroundings.
FACT FILE:

Here are just a few animals


with senses sharper than
yours
RESPONSE TO STIMULI IN PLANTS

A touch me not plant folds when touched.


5. LIVING THINGS
REPRODUCE
REPRODUCTION: The process by which living things produce
young ones of their own kind.

Reproduction
IN ANIMALS

Oviparous Viviparous
( Lays eggs) ( Gives birth)
REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS

Seed germination and through vegetative parts(leaves, stem, roots)


RECAP

❖ Living things respond to stimuli .


❖ Fact file
❖ Response to stimuli in plants
❖ Living things reproduce.
❖ Reproduction in plants.
ACTIVITY

Take a potato/onion, insert two


toothpicks in the base of the
potato/onion, place it in a glass
of water. Place it in such a way
that only the base of the
potato/onion, touches the water.
Use the toothpicks to support
the onion on the glass. Observe
the potato/onion, daily and write
your observation.
ASSIGNMENT

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1.When we touch a “touch-me –not” plant it closes

its leaflets. Identify the stimulus and response here.

2. What are viviparous animals? Give two examples.

3. What is seed germination?

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