Interactive
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The Living and Non Living Things Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try to identify whether objects are living or not. Explanations are provided along with the correct answers.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Classifying Living Things

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn how all living things are classified.
Interactive
Utah Education Network

Uen: Are You Among the Living or the Nonliving?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
Graphic
Other

Vida: Living and Non Living Things

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Study these four images when learning about living and nonliving things.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Living and Non Living [Pdf]

For Teachers K
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...
Handout
Utah Education Network

Uen: Are You Dead or Alive?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great site that offers real life examples of what makes something living or nonliving.
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Our Big Backyard

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An activity for students to fine tune their observation skills using their senses in their own backyard. During this activity, students will record their observation to compare and contrast living things over a period of different seasons.
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers 1st - 4th
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.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Biotic or Abiotic? Living or Non Living?

For Students 9th - 10th
This fun quiz has you choose between different images to decide whether it is biotic or abiotic. It also gives examples through illustrations of abiotic and biotic things.
Handout
PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Ecosystems

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How would you define an ecosystem? Check out this educational resource to learn more about the living and nonliving parts of different ecosystems.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Ring of Investigation: What Will We Find?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this science investigation, students will observe and catalog the living and non-living things they find within a small, circumscribed area of the schoolyard.
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EL Education

El Education: Get a Clue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...