Smart: Living and Nonliving Things

Is a rock living? How about lima beans? You'll find everything you need for an interactive sorting activity exploring living and non-living things. 

It's alive! Or is it? Through a series of shared readings, whole class activities, and independent exercises children explore the difference between living and non-living things, creating a pair of printable books to demonstrate their...

Students determine that environments have living and nonliving parts. They discuss what makes something a living thing and something a nonliving thing. They make a chart and list characteristics of living things and nonliving things.

Third graders sort and classify objects. In this sorting instructional activity, 3rd graders sort small objects such as cereal or candy. Then, students classify and sort objects that are living or nonliving.

Third graders learn to distinguish between living and nonliving things.

Students will think about what is alive and identify the objects they observe as living or nonliving. They will record their findings in a journal, share them with their classmates, then illustrate a page for a class book of things they...

Third graders look for living and nonliving elements on the playground.

Third graders will be able to identify what is living and nonliving in the world around them.

Students photograph five objects from a bag and five objects from the outdoors. Students categorize things by living and non-living and by properties such as color, size, structure and needs. Students draw conclusions about the basic...

Distinguish between things that are living, things that were once-living, and things that are nonliving.