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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing Living and Nonliving Components of an Ecosystem With a Partner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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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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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: Looking at the Community Tree

For Teachers 3rd
A neighborhood tree is observed for evidence of interactions between living and nonliving things.
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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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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Looking for Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers K - 1st
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...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wanted Dead or Alive!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan students will identify the characteristics of living and nonliving things.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Classify Yes, but Is It Alive?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Living and Nonliving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart details characteristics of living and nonliving things, then asks students to classify. Activote questions are included.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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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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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Water Cycle

For Students 6th - 8th
[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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Ecosystems

For Students 6th - 8th
[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....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing What Is Life?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Understanding Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students to learn about ecosystems and the living and nonliving things that interact in them.

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