In class last week, my field partner (from another section of TE402) taught her science lesson to the class. She taught on living vs. nonliving things. She started by reviewing the five senses (the intro lesson I had taught prior to her lesson), then discussed living things as things that can move around on their own and that need food and water, and non-living things as those which cannot/do not. I thought that this lesson was okay, but would have been better if she described living things in another way. My CT had to let the kids know that living things could also be plants, which is a huge category of living things-the kids are only in first grade, so they don't necessarily understand completely that plants need "food" as we (people) or animals do. She had the kids circle which thing was living on a worksheet-there was a picture of a crayon and a picture of a person. The kids have already learned about living vs nonliving things by other MSU seniors in the classroom, so they grasped the material easily and the lesson did go smoothly, though I thought it should have been more detailed, and more complex for the kids as they are capable and ready to learn more about this topic.