This song is written from the perspective of a young child, who discovers an alien green blob in the park. S/he wonders if the blob is living or non-living. For very young learners, the repetitive chorus will help the child remember the 7 signs of life through the words eating, pooping, growing, moving, breathing, reacting and reproducing. Older children should be thinking in terms of the more scientifically correct terms: nutrition, excretion, growth, movement, respiration, sensitivity and reproduction.
All living organisms possess the above 7 characteristics. It might be instructive to discuss how plants do not ‘poop’ but excrete oxygen as a waste product of photosynthesis. Asking ‘How do plants move?’ is another question to get kids thinking more deeply. [leaves turn towards the sun, flowers may open and close and new shoots move as they grow].
Another nice discussion can be had by asking ‘How do plants react to stimuli?’ This is a great question to promote discussion. [plants react in many ways, to light, water, gravity, the sun, touch (think Mimosa)].
Finally, older children may enjoy comparing respiration in different types of organisms and also why is it not correct to say that plants breathe.
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🎻Lyrics to the 7 Characteristics of Living Things Song (a.k.a. 'Does it Poop?'
I was out in the park, the other day
When a huge green blob, got in my way
it slid so fast, and then stopped still
and I asked myself?
Does it eat?, does it poop?
Does it grow, breathe and move?
Can it make more of its kind?
if you poke it, does it mind
Does it eat, does it poop
Does it grow, breathe and move
If it does all these things
It’s alive
I pressed my ear, against the blob
I couldn’t find its chest, or even its gob
I listened for ages and then gave up
And I asked myself?
Eating, pooping, growing, moving,
Breathing, reacting, reproducing
These are the 7 signs of life
I think it’s getting bigger and I started to shake
But the blob didn’t feed, or seem awake
I poked it with a stick, but it didn’t react
And I asked myself?
I couldn’t sleep well, at all that night
The blob was in my dreams, it must have been fright
It was gone when I looked, the very next day
And I asked myself?
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