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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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Graphic
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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Lesson Plan
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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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Scotland: How Can We Group Living Things Based on Characteristics?

For Students K - 1st
Lilly is from Peru, and she's traveling the world. Right now, she's in Scotland. Join her while she studies living and non-living things.
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Handout
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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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Comparison of Living and Non Living Things

For Students 9th - 10th
Compares the characteristics of living and non-living things based on respiration, life processes, response to stimuli, death, and composition.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Making a Mini Worm Habitat

For Teachers 3rd
Activity shows the process of converting organic waste into usable fertilizer.
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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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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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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: I Spy

For Teachers 2nd
Identify objects made from rock.
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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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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Atoms Make Up Everything

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how atoms are the building blocks of all living and nonliving things.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: From Weeds to Worms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The purpose of this lesson is to guide students in researching and discovering the importance of the interdependence of living and nonliving things in an ecosystem. Students utilize technology independently and cooperatively to establish...
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Activity
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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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.10 Ecosystems

For Students 5th - 9th
See how living and nonliving things exist together in an ecosystem.
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Whiteboard
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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Handout
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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Unit Plan
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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Unit Plan
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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Article
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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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.
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Unit Plan
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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