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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: How Can We Group Living Things Based on Characteristics?

For Students K - 1st
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.
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.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: How Can We Group Non Living Things Based on Characteristics/purposes?

For Students K - 1st
Montgomery is a true Scot, and even wears a kilt. He works in his dad's store and needs help learning about materials.
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Classifying Living Things

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn how all living things are classified.
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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.
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Other

Vida: Living and Non Living Things

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Study these four images when learning about living and nonliving things.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Cells

For Teachers 3rd
Understand living and non-living things by investigating yeast.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Shrink to Fit

For Teachers 3rd
Learn how various living and non-living organisms help and react to one another in a small environment.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is Alive?

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is the opening lesson for a unit of study entitled "Why Doesn't A Caterpillar Grow Up To Be An Oak Tree?" during which students take a look at life cycles of plants and animals. This lesson will encourage students to explore...
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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.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: What Is Soil Made Of?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Do you know what makes up soil? Soil is a combination of many different living and non-living things and provides raw materials needed by all living things. In this instructional activity students will explore a sample of natural soil by...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Height Limits and Linearity of Bouncy Balls

For Students 9th - 10th
You might think that plants and animals have little in common with batteries, springs, or slingshots, but they actually do have something in common. Both living and non-living things store and transfer energy from one form to another. In...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Water

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The Science of Water Teacher's Guide provides a number of inquiry-based activities for grades 3-5 (although it can be expanded for other grades). The guide contains science lessons that enable students to explore water, behavior of...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive introduction to the carbon cycle. The cycle of atoms between living and non-living things is known as a biogeochemical cycle. The most common of these are the carbon and nitrogen cycles.
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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.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Introduction to the Characteristics of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
Earth is the only place we have found life so far. The following tutorial provides a unique look into the characteristics of life.
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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...

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