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Elementary Science Education

Reply To: Living or Biological Clarification

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cinvela1
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Thank you. So at this point in the program do I draw his attention to the fact that everything human-made starts from the biological and wait for him to label these items (like paper, a wooden block, etc.) accordingly?

I also got tripped up on how to categorize the sun and fire. He said both were Natural Earth. I know fire is not… going back to Volume I (p.55) Fire is a form of energy…although the idea that fire is a gas persists. This is hard for me to counter.

Thanks so much for your help!
Cindy