Alive, dead or never alive ks1 science

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KS1 science question. Something alive must meet 7 criteria (uses oxygen, reproduce etc)

Trees are alive while a garden fork has never been alive.

Where do wooden objects stand, having a domestic with DH. I said he’s over thinking it, a wooden table isn’t classed as dead as the tree has been smushed together, varnish added etc while he’s saying all wooden objects are classed as dead.

help???

Books are always alive

Unless they were written by Jeffrey Archer.

That's not KS1 science.

That's Philosophy.

Is Evidencing Commitment to the Commencement of an Existential Crisis one of the latest Ofsted descriptors for year 3?

I assume you've never seen baby pigeons either. Doesnt mean they don't exist...👀

I like your style though. Dead spoon 😂

Buckingham Palace is made of Portland stone which is limestone which is at least partly made of the shells of marine creatures.
Therefore: dead (at least partly)

Something containing things of animal/plant origin isn't "alive" or "dead" just because it has something in it that came from a plant/animal/other living thing. It is only dead if that object as a whole used to fulfil the criteria for "alive" and now doesn't.

Can a table move? Can it reproduce? Can it sense anything? Can it grow? Can it respire? Does it excrete (poo etc)? Does it take in nutrition? Could it, as a whole table, ever have done all of these things? All 7? And no, your toddler mushing yoghurt into the table doesn't count as nutrition.

No it couldn't do these things as a whole table. The table was never alive.

Thank you for this wonderful image at bedtime 🤣

I think the table was never alive, as a table, but it's made of matter that was once living and is now dead.

(Actually I'd say the table is alive and I'd call it Timothy Table, but that's because I do that with most things in my home, so that's beside the point 😆.)

I think the school question is talking about the materials rather than the object as an entity, so you're right about the items, but your DH is right wrt the question.

Plastics are quite clearly all dead dinosaurs, reincarnated for modern times.

Now you’ve got me thinking… are wooden spoons just taxidermied (sp??) trees?

See I'd say plastics are never alive as they've changed form too much
The plant was alive but it's fundamental chemistry has changed from plant to crude oil to plastic in a way that tree to table hasnt

Dead surely, the live bits - yeast, wheat, seeds etc are no longer alive

Omg

Never alive.

Actually, no. Dead I think is correct.

I can see your reasoning for never alive though.

Wood, yeast, carbon, coal, seaweed, pumice stone, talcum powder, chalk (some random things I have also though of now) would be technically now dead I suppose

Not pumice, that's a volcanic rock.

You get the nutrition because it’s made of once alive things though? They harness the energy of the sun in chemical form which we can utilise as energy as well other non alive things like iron, calcium etc.

And seaweed is alive ... until it isn't.

omg can someone check these please:
cheese
yoghurt (probiotic with live cultures obvs)
RAAC
vampires
schrodinger’s cat

cheese - blue - live. Pasteurised ordinary - dead. American cheese slices ... never alive
yoghurt (probiotic with live cultures obvs) - live
RAAC - never alive
vampires - undead
schrodinger’s cat - never alive, it's a thought experiment.

And some cultures believe that swords have a spirit,or soul, and are therefore alive.
As someone mentioned upthread, this is philosophy, not science.

You’re the hero we don’t deserve, thank you 🙏

If you think a wooden spoon is dead, are you wearing a dead 100% cotton t shirt?