ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Living and Non Living [Pdf]
Students explore the differences between living and nonliving things through the lens of the nursery rhyme, "Hey Diddle Diddle." After bringing the characters to life, the students discuss the concepts of living and nonliving and act out...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Living and Nonliving Things
Students define the characteristics of living and non-living things, identify living and non-living components of an ecosystem, and identify the roles of organisms in living systems.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observing Living and Nonliving Components of an Ecosystem With a Partner
In this biology field lab, students will observe a square foot area of an ecosystem surrounding our elementary school. The students will keep a journal to record the physical elements of the ecosystem which they will visit monthtly. The...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Wanted Dead or Alive!
In this lesson students will identify the characteristics of living and nonliving things.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Living and Nonliving
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart details characteristics of living and nonliving things, then asks students to classify. Activote questions are included.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Are You Dead or Alive?
A great site that offers real life examples of what makes something living or nonliving.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 3:2 Investigation 2 Greenhouses
Set up a miniature greenhouse to help with understanding how nonliving things affect the growth of living things.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What It Is, What It Isn't
Recognize characteristics of living and nonliving items within an environment.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Marshall Islands: How Can We Tell Living Things From Non Living Things?
Andrea lives on the Marshall Islands, and she will teach you about living and nonliving things.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Characteristics of Living Things
Discusses the five characteristics that living things have and nonliving things do not.
Other
Vida: Living and Non Living Things
Study these four images when learning about living and nonliving things.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Living, Nonliving or Once Living
Third graders, investigating what it means to be alive, sort items into three categories: living, nonliving, or once living.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: How Can We Group Living Things Based on Characteristics?
Lilly is from Peru, and she's traveling the world. Right now, she's in Scotland. Join her while she studies living and non-living things.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Comparison of Living and Non Living Things
Compares the characteristics of living and non-living things based on respiration, life processes, response to stimuli, death, and composition.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Atoms Make Up Everything
Learn how atoms are the building blocks of all living and nonliving things.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: From Weeds to Worms
The purpose of this lesson is to guide students in researching and discovering the importance of the interdependence of living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. Students utilize technology independently and cooperatively to establish...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing What Is Life?
In this claim-testing exercise, you're going to make determinations about whether or not claims about living versus nonliving things are true or false.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 12.10 Ecosystems
See how living and nonliving things exist together in an ecosystem.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ecosystems
How would you define an ecosystem? Check out this educational resource to learn more about the living and nonliving parts of different ecosystems.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What's Different About These Worms?
Observe three different worm models and identify characteristics.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Making a Mini Worm Habitat
Activity shows the process of converting organic waste into usable fertilizer.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Classify Yes, but Is It Alive?
Do you know the traits something that is alive? Test your knowledge of the traits of life by identifying objects as alive, not living, or once alive.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Ecology
Students review the study of living things and make connections back to Earth's systems. This unit focuses on how various species, grouped in populations and communities, work with the nonliving things around them to ensure survival.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis
Where does food come from and where does it go next? This unit helps students figure out that they can trace all food back to plants, including processed and synthetic food. They obtain and communicate information to explain how matter...