Note: Lesson 5 ‘Living And Non-living Things’ is your 3rd chapter of

Half Yearly course.

Living And Non-living Things
(Part-2)
Topic covered : Living Things Feel and React, Breathe, Move
and Reproduce
Introduction : Hello children! How are you? I hope you are safe and fine. STAY
HOME and STAY SAFE. Children, as we have done few portions of this chapter in
our previous session. We learned some features of living things like Living Things
grow and also they need food and water. In this session we will discuss four more
features of living things that make them different from non-living things.
Note: Two features are already discussed in previous session.
3. Living Things Feel and React:
Children, when you touch a hot cup of tea with your lips. What do you feel? Yes,
you feel hot. Similarly, when very cool breeze will blow you will wear sweater
because you will experience cold.

Living things react to changes in their environment. They usually respond to touch,
light, heat, cold and sound etc. Living things feel changes around them. Human
being and animals feel changes around them with the help of their sense
organs. These sense organs are eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin.
Some plants also feel changes such as mimosa plant. When you will touch touch-
me-not plant, it leaves fold inwards this shows this plant reacts when touched.
Insects like cockroaches and butterflies have antennae to sense the changes around
them.

So, living things feel and react. If you peel your pencil, does it react? No.
4. Living Things Breathe :
Have you watched a sleeping child? Watch how his chest moves up and down, this
is because child is breathing. We need air to breathe.
All living things need to breathe. Different animals use different organs to breathe.
For example some animals use their lungs to breathe. Human beings also breadth
through lungs. Fishes uses their gills and worms use their skin.

Insects like cockroaches, mosquitoes and grasshoppers breathe through air holes in
their bodies. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide through our
nose. Plants breathe through tiny holes present in their leaves called stomata.

Hold the nose of your doll. Does it react? No.

5. Living Things Move:
All living things show some sort of movements. They can move their body parts.
Plants usually do not move from one place to another but can move their parts.

All living things move. Humans and animals walk and run with legs. Birds fly with
wings. Fishes swim with fins.

Animals move from place to place in search of food, shelter or to run away from
their enemies.
Even plants shows movement. If you touch the leaves of the mimosa (touch-me-
not) plant, the leaves immediately closes. The sunflower always turns towards the
Sun.

So, living things move on their own. Children, does your pencil move on its own?
No.
6. Living Things Reproduce:
Living things reproduce and have babies.
Definition: The process by which living things produce young ones of their own
kind is called reproduction.
All living things either give birth to their young ones or lay eggs. Human being,
cows, goat, lion and elephant give birth to babies.

Birds, snakes, crocodiles, tortoises and lizards lay eggs. Babies hatch from these
eggs. Plants reproduce from seeds. Seeds then grow into a plant. Some plants
produce new plants from other parts of the plants like stem, roots or leaves.
Children does your chair reproduce anything? No.

So children, here we come to an end of this chapter. Read my explanations and zoom
the pictures to understand nicely. Read your book also and try to memories
everything.

Exercises:
(Do in book page no. 32)
Tick ✅ the correct answers.
1._____________ do not have sense organs.
Ans. plants
2.Cockroaches breathe through___________ in their bodies.
Ans. air holes

Exercises:
(Do in book page no. 34)
A. Tick ✅ the correct answers.
1. Which of the following can make its own food?
 Ans. plant
2. Which of the following is a living thing?
Ans. human
3. A seed grows into a big___________.
Ans. plant
4. Insects like cockroaches and butterflies feel through__________.
Ans. Antennae

B. Fill in the blanks.

1. Birds have wings to fly.
2. Sunflower always turns towards the Sun.
3. A chick finally grows into a hen.
4. We use lungs to breathe.
5. Fishes breathe through gills.

C. Match the following.

1. Plants → seeds
2. Gills → fishes
3. Wings → birds
4. Antennae → cockroaches

Exercises:
( Continue in Science copy)
Note: Q.1 completed in previous session.
Q.2 Name them:
1. Two animals that give birth to young ones.
Ans. Dog, cat
2. Two living things.
 Ans. Plants, hen, cow etc.
3. Two plants that show a little movement.
Ans. Sunflower plant, lotus plant
4. Tiny holes in the leaves through which plants breathe.
Ans. Stomata
5. Two non-living things.
Ans. Table, car, pen etc.
6. Two insects that breathe through air holes in their body.
Ans. Mosquito, grasshopper

Q.3 What will the following grow into?

1. A kitten→ A cat
2. A baby boy→ A man
3. A chick→ A hen/cock
4. A puppy→ A dog
5. A seed→ A plant/tree

Q.4 Answer the following questions.

1. How do humans and most animals feel changes around them?
Ans. Humans and most animals feel changes around them with the help of
their sense organs (eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin).
2. How do animals get their food?
Ans. Animals get their food from plants and other animals.
3. Why do animals move from place to place?
Ans. Animals move from place to place in search of food and shelter.
4. How do plants reproduce?
 Ans. Plants reproduce mainly by seeds. Some plants produce new plants from
other parts of the plants.
5. Write four features that make living things different from non-living things.
Ans. Four features are:
• Living things grow, but non-living things do not grow.
• Living things reproduce, but non-living things do not reproduce.
• Living things breathe, but non-living things do not breathe.
• Living things eat, but non-living things do not eat.

Q.5 State true or false.

1. In insects and birds, babies come out from seeds. False
2. New plants grow from eggs. False
3. A chick finally grows into a hen. True
4. We need lungs to breathe. True
5. Stomata are tiny holes in insects. False

Q.6 See the example and complete the given pattern.

Ex. Seed → plant → tree
1. Egg → chick → hen
2. Baby → child → adult

Q.7 Define the terms:

1. Reproduction:-- The process by which living things produce young ones of
their own kind is called reproduction.
2. Gills:-- Breathing organ in fishes.

Q.8 Fill the spellings.

1. Living things that make their own food. P L A N T S
2. In insects and birds, babies come out from E G G S
3. Stomata in leaves help plant to B R E A T H E
 4. New plants grow from S E E D S

Activity:
(Do in rough copy)
• Make a list of at least 10 things around your surroundings, house, school and
park. Classify them into natural things and human-made things.