Living Misconceptions

Concepts

Living is

Misconceptions

Any object that moves is living. (Machines, smoke, clouds, fire, moving water...)
Non living is dead.
Plants absorb food through their roots.
Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, water, minerals is food
Plants are not living.
Seedlings are plants or living, trees are not.
Grass, trees, and other plants die in the winter and are born in the spring.
Living and growing movement makes an animal alive, a seed is dead, all living organisms make noise.
Plants are not alive. because they do not move…
Students will sometimes say that plants breathe and grow but still do not see them as alive.
They do not talk, walk, or breathe
Can't link the same properties that are associated with animals being alive to plants.
Plants eat artificial food, nutrients, water
Plants bring up soil, water, minerals to get food
Need sugar to survive