Life Science · Living Things
Living vs. Nonliving Things
Compare familiar examples and use patterns of needs, growth, and reproduction to tell living things from nonliving things without relying on movement alone.
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Living vs. Nonliving Things
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Lesson overview
What students will learn
- Sort familiar examples as living or nonliving using observable evidence.
- Use more than one clue, such as needs, growth, and making young, to explain why something is living.
Key science ideas
- Plants and animals need resources to live.
- Living things grow and change over time.
- Living things come from other living things.
Lesson at a glance
- Grade 1
- 35 min
- ~8 min prep
- K-LS1-1
- 5 materials
What’s included
- Lesson Plan
- Investigation
- Teacher Slides
- Printable Worksheet
- Teacher Answer Key
- Interactive Activity
- Vocabulary