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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Utah Open Textbook: 3rd Grade Science

For Students 3rd Standards
How do we interact with Earth? Scholars learn about the sun, Earth, moon, forces, gravity, and heat sources by reading a text and performing hands-on demonstrations. They also differentiate between living and non-living things using...
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Curated OER

Renewable vs. Non-Renewable Resources

For Teachers 5th
Here's a fine lesson on renewable and non-renewable sources of energy for your 5th graders. In it, learners list a number of natural resources on the board, then try to sort the resources into appropriate categories. This helps them to...
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Curated OER

Flower Power

For Teachers K - 1st
An engaging, multi-session art and science lesson plan awaits your class. Within this lesson plan, you'll find everything you need to implement the plan. They go on a nature walk around their school, and must identify many living and...
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Curated OER

Characteristics of Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student use the scientific method to experiment with worms. In this characteristics of living things lesson, students predict and examine the reactions of worms to dry and wet soil. Students share their findings.
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Activity
New South Wales Department of Education

Is it Alive?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Interestingly enough, movement is not a characteristic of living things. The first activity in a series of 20 introduces learners to the concepts of living versus non-living things and then focuses on biologists and what they study....
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Worksheet
Casimir Middle School

Biological Classification Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Classify living things with a set of worksheets that has pupils sorting and indentifying living and non-living things. Learners use the worksheets as a basis for finding their answers. 
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Living vs. Non-living

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students go on a nature walk and observe and discuss the living and non living things they see in the ecosystem. In this living and non living lesson plan, students complete a connecting string activity to simulate an ecosystem.
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Activity
National Wildlife Federation

Habitat Web

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Young scientists weave together an understanding of ecosystems with this fun collaborative activity. Taking on the roles of different living and non-living elements of specific habitats, learners use a ball of yarn to create the web of...
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Captain Planet Foundation

Sense of Place

For Teachers K
Explore the five senses with a kindergarten instructional activity on gardening. After taking a walk through the class garden, kids note what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and then decide what is living in the garden versus...
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Classifying Living and Non-Living Objects

For Teachers K
Students investigate living organisms and define the properties of a living species.  In this life characteristic lesson, students examine plants in their class and discuss whether or not they are alive.  Students create a living vs....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science - Mixed Review: Living Things and Non Living Things

For Students 4th - 6th
In this living and non living things worksheet, students fill in a mixed review that has them answering questions in the true and false, short answer, and classification formats. Students answer 59 questions.
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Living and Non-Living

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are divided into small groups and collect 4 objects from the playground. They take 5 to 10 minutes to classify their groups and discuss their findings including the terms "living" and "non-living". As a class they discuss...
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Characteristics of Living Things

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the criteria for living things with their groups. They come to a consensus on at least five or more characteristics of a living thing. They determine if the lab samples are living, non-living, or other.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science - What Can Living Things Do

For Students 4th - 5th
In these living things worksheets, learners write true or false for the sentences about living things. Students answer the questions about living things and choose the words that best describe the statements about living things.
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Curated OER

What Do Living Things Have In Common?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of classification. In this classification instructional activity, students collaborate to create lists of living thing similarities in order to differentiate between living and non-living things. Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Science - What do living things need?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this living things worksheet, students answer questions that ask what living things need. Students answer 10 questions in the true and false and short answer format.
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Curated OER

Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between living and nonliving objects, and compare living organisms and nonliving objects.
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Curated OER

What is Life? Demonstrations & Discussion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Display seven items for your biologists to consider. Are they living or non-living? How can you tell? This is a simple outline of what you can display and questions that can be discussed as this topic is explored. One way to use this...
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Curated OER

What on Earth is in the Earth?

For Teachers K
Students explore the physical properties of sand, soil, and rocks and sort, classify, compare, and contrast the materials found in the soil. The differences between the living and non-living parts of the soil is discussed.
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K12 Reader

Ecosystems

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Examine how living and non-living things work together in a reading passage about ecosystems. Class members read the text and then respond to five response questions that relate specifically to the content of the passage.
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Kentucky School for the Deaf

Levels of Organization within an Ecosystem

For Students 5th - 10th Standards
From tiny organisms to entire biomes, young scientists examine the interdependent relationships tying all living and non-living things together with this collection of ecology resources.
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Lesson Plan
Journey Through the Universe

Is There Anyone Out There?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
What is an alien's favorite game? All-star baseball! Scholars start defining living and non-living. Then, they conduct experiments to research if life exists, keeping in mind that life could be in many forms, not just human. 
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Curated OER

Living And Non-living Things

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify what is living and non-living in the world around them. They also tell whether these things are natural or man-made
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Curated OER

Living or Nonliving

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners explore the characteristics that distinguish living things from nonliving things. By examining video and photographs, students gather evidence and develop criteria to decide if something is living or nonliving.

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