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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: Trb 3:2 Investigation 2 Greenhouses

For Teachers 3rd
Set up a miniature greenhouse to help with understanding how nonliving things affect the growth of living things.
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Living, Nonliving or Once Living

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, investigating what it means to be alive, sort items into three categories: living, nonliving, or once living.
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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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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: Mini Ecosystems

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will make small-scale environments and will describe interactions between living and nonliving things in their environments.
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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 3:2 Investigation 3 Terrariums / Aquariums

For Teachers 3rd
Creating aquariums/terrariums help students understand how creatures depend on living and nonliving things.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What It Is, What It Isn't

For Teachers 3rd
Recognize characteristics of living and nonliving items within an 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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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 students will identify the characteristics of living and nonliving things.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What's Different About These Worms?

For Teachers 3rd
Observe three different worm models and identify characteristics.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Making a Mini Worm Habitat

For Teachers 3rd
Activity shows the process of converting organic waste into usable fertilizer.
Interactive
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.
Whiteboard
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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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 7.4 Matter Cycling & Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Where does food come from and where does it go next? This unit helps students figure out that they can trace all food back to plants, including processed and synthetic food. They obtain and communicate information to explain how matter...
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Other

Hub Pages: Abiotic Factors: A Component of Ecosystem

For Students 6th - 8th
In the environment, there are external factors that really affect organisms living within it. One of these factors is the set of abiotic factors, or nonliving variables, such as wind, ocean, day length, rainfall, temperature, and ocean...
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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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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Biogeochemical Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
The ways in which an element or compound such as water moves between its various living and nonliving forms and locations in the biosphere is called a biogeochemical cycle. All of the atoms that are building blocks of living things are a...

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