Utah Education Network
Uen: Classify Yes, but Is It Alive?
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Are You Among the Living or the Nonliving?
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Characteristics of Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do you define a living thing? What do mushrooms, daisies, cats, and bacteria have in common? All of these are living things, or organisms. It might seem hard to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Characteristics of Life: Living vs. Non Living Characteristics
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the green tiles from the blue box in the interactive to group the different characteristics into the appropriate columns.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the characteristics of life.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life
Describes the characteristics of life. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Features of All Forms of Life
This slide show describes the seven common characteristics of all living things.
Other
Biology at Shaw High School: What Do Living Things Need to Survive?
Discusses the interrelatedness of all living things and of ecosystems and biomes, and what organisms need to survive and to maximize the carrying capacity of an ecosystem. This explanation is followed by a series of activities including...
Other
Adaptations in Plants
The body features and habits of a living thing that help it to live in its surroundings is called Adaptation. [3:39]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Organization of Cells
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how multicelled organisms have specialized cells that do specific jobs and single celled organisms exist without the help of other cells.
Bryn Mawr College
Serendip: Is Yeast Alive?
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Is Yeast Alive? Lab, along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Characteristics of life are addressed and metabolism and the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Wanted Dead or Alive!
In this lesson students will identify the characteristics of living and nonliving things.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Glossary: Life
A helpful glossary of terms to go along with the Life unit in Big History.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing What Is Life?
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Basics of Biology Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a biology unit.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Life?
This resource provides a practice passage and test question for the MCAT. This question is a critical analysis and reasoning skills (CARS)question
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Are Viruses Dead or Alive?
Are viruses alive or dead? How do we determine whether something is alive? Let's compare viruses to the 7 criteria researchers have set to determine if something is alive.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Life and Purpose
This article describes the differences between non-life and life. Learn how we classify something as living or nonliving.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 1.8 Characteristics of Life
Discover the five characteristics that all living things have in common.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Characteristics and Origins of Life Study Guide
A general overview of the origin and characteristics of life.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: What Is Life?
How do we define what is life? Use this gallery to learn about how we define whether an object is alive or not.
University of California
Ucmp: The Biosphere: Life on Earth
Learn about different forms of life that coexist with us on Earth. This Berkeley article provides links to brief write-ups on the three domains of living organisms: Eukaryota, Bacteria, and Archaea.
Michigan Reach Out
Reach Out! Michigan: Animal or Plant
This site provides a basic lesson plan from Reach Out! Michigan comparing plants to animals.
Michigan Reach Out
Reach Out Michigan: Being Alive
This site provides a basic lesson plan that classifies objects as alive or not alive. Good for early elementary.