Read and Watch: What is Life?
- Due No Due Date
- Points 10
- Submitting on paper
Overview
In this activity you will learn how scientists define life. Figuring out if something is alive sounds easy, right? You may be surprised! Although it seems like a no-brainer, trying to figure out if something is alive or not can be complicated. The following passage and videos will help you better understand the characteristics scientists use to distinguish living things from nonliving things.
Directions
- Open the Tracking Concept Development handout ;and make a copy in your Google Drive.
- Fill in the "What I know before" column on the Tracking Concept Development Handout.
- Read the text passage and watch the videos.
- Complete the Tracking Concept Development Handout.
- Print your completed handout and bring it to class tomorrow.
Read
Watch
Defining "Life" - It's a Process [2:58]
Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4 [13:28]
Licenses and Attributions
- Defining "Life" - It's a Process by ExSciEd is licensed under the Standard YouTube license
- Are Viruses Alive? by DnewsChannel is licensed under the Standard YouTube license
- Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4 by CrashCourse is licensed under the Standard YouTube license
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