Teaching About Living and Nonliving Things? We Can Help!

Are you teaching your students about living and nonliving things? Need a quick refresher? The Teach Starter team has been hard at work putting together a variety of new animal classification activities for your students to use to identify living and nonliving things based on their characteristics…starting with a brand-new Living or non-living printable.

Complete the Table to Identify Living and Nonliving Things

This printable science activity is the perfect tool for your students to use to demonstrate their understanding of the characteristics of living things. With this activity, students will complete the table to identify examples of living and nonliving things. 

This printable activity is an excellent one to include as a formative assessment or help your students summarize their learning in one easy step. 

This resource download includes one worksheet and a printable answer key for easy grading.

Download Your Living and Nonliving Things Worksheet Today!

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or Printable PDF Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file format. Make your copies, pass them out to your students, and you’re ready to begin!

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

Even More Living and Nonliving Things Activities!

That’s not all! Make sure you check out the resources below and fill in those lesson plans in a flash!

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Living and Nonliving Things – Clip Card Activity

Differentiate between living and nonliving things with this set of 24 clip cards.

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Living or Nonliving Things - Interactive Activity

Identify living and nonliving things with this self-checking interactive activity.

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Living or Nonliving? - Worksheet

A worksheet that explores living and nonliving things.