Living vs nonliving kindergarten

FREE Living vs Non-Living Learning Pack - This Reading Mama

Get a free game and sorting cards to assist you in teaching your living vs non-living unit. There are other activities, such as emergent readers available too.

Here are tips for ideas for teaching living vs. nonliving things to your second grade students. These are low-prep and engaging activities!

This is a quick little unit that teaches children about living and non-living things. I find that most kindergartners can almost always tell you what things are living and what things are non-living, but they cannot tell you why. And there are definitely some tricky ones--for example, most of my kids think that a tree is non-living. And then there is always the discussion of non-living versus dead. They will sometimes say things like, "The rock is dead." So I explain that in order to be…

First I asked the question, How do you know if something is living or non living? I showed them pictures of different things and asked them...

I just opened a new science lab in my classroom and my students LOVE it! We just finished with living and non-living things and I wanted to share some pictures of some of our activities from this mini-unit. These activities are from my Investigating Living and Non-Living Things Packet (see below). Enjoy! Download HERE

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Engage your students in exciting science lessons about living and nonliving things. This science lesson is perfect for science centers in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade classrooms and packed full of fun science activities. This document allows your class to have a hands-on experience learning about living and nonliving things.

Just Teachy: Ideas, activities, and resources that are fun, engaging, and hands-on, for the primary classroom.

To introduce our living/nonliving/plants/animals unit we started with the four questions a scientist would ask. I combined charts that I saw by Krazy in Kindergarten and Mini Muffin Mondays. Then we explored living and non living with gummy worms and meal worms. The students recorded their evidence in their journals along with a drawing. Here are the lessons my team used for the first four days of the unit. Then we moved into plants... ...and grew grass! In the third week we moved on to the…