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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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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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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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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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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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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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Living And Non-living Things

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners 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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Living or Nonliving

For Teachers K - 5th
Students 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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Sorting Living and Nonliving Objects

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders sort and classify objects. In this sorting lesson, 3rd graders sort small objects such as cereal or candy. Then, students classify and sort objects that are living or nonliving.
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Can Bacteria Arise from Non-living Things?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, determine whether bacteria arises from non-living things,
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Living vs. Nonliving

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils explore the characteristics that distinguish living things from nonliving things. Students examine video clips and still photographs to gather evidence and develop criteria to decide if something is living or nonliving.
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Going on a Living and Nonliving Hunt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students distinguish between things that are living, things that were once-living, and things that are nonliving. They graph results and create a compare and contrast Venn Diagram. They read 'Living and Nonliving' by Angela Royston.
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Investigation 1 - Intro: Living & Nonliving

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders distinguish between living and nonliving things.
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Meet the Plants

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine the difference between living and non-living things. In this living versus non-living lesson, students complete a KWL worksheet and a Living and Non-Living Chart. They examine a variety of plants and non-plants before...
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Living Organisms as Indicators of Pollutants in Fresh Water Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe the effects of pollution on living organisms. In this pollution lesson plan, students observe fresh water Hydra and look at their structures and movement. They place samples of pond and lake water on the Hydra and...
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Living and Non-Living Things | What’s Alive?

For Teachers K
Students compare and contrast living and nonliving things. In this classification instructional activity, students read a book featuring living and nonliving things and then sort pictures of living and nonliving things.
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What is a Living Thing, and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate how living things interact with their environment. In this living things lesson plan, students complete lessons for science investigations on what living things have in common. Learners study cells, complete...
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National Wildlife Federation

Habitat Web

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
It's all connected. Classes create a web to connect living things in a local ecosystem. They create cards with both living and nonliving things found in their areas while considering the characteristics of each. After they have a good...
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Reconstructing the Squares

For Teachers K - 8th
Students visit an outdoors area and mark out a square on the ground that they examine, looking for living and non-living things. They make a model or drawing of the findings from the actual square.
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Wetlands

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine how an ecosystem is a distinct community of interactive living and non-living things.
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Living, Non-Living Mobile

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept of living and nonliving organisms in general and participate in a starter activity where they build their own definitions of living and nonliving organisms.They sort organisms into living and...
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It's Alive! Or is it...?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students apply their knowledge of the characteristics of living things to unknown creatures to determine whether they can be considered "alive." They watch a Star Trek episode, then describe the characteristics of life.
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Draw an Alien in Natural Habitat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students apply prior knowledge of living things, structures of living things and how living things sense and respond to their environment. In this habitat lesson plan, students review the basic needs of organisms to survive. Students...

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