Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Looking for 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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Are You Among the Living or the Nonliving?
Great site to test your knowledge on living and nonliving things. Play a game that tests your knowledge, and view pictures to pick out each living organism.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Looking at the Community Tree
A neighborhood tree is observed for evidence of interactions between living and nonliving things.
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 plan 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.
Other
Vida: Living and Non Living Things
Study these four images when learning about living and nonliving things.
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.
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: 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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Understanding Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to learn about ecosystems and the living and nonliving things that interact in them.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Water and elements like carbon and nitrogen are constantly being recycled through the environment. This process is called a biogeochemical cycle because it involves...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ecology is the study of ecosystems. That is, ecology is the study of how living organisms interact with each other and with the nonliving part of their environment....