Living and Non-Living

Cards and Activities

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Cut out the cards on the following pages. Have
your child sort the cards into living and non-
living categories.

After this activity, they may be ready to move

on to a vertebrate-invertebrate sort

or the five vertebrate animal groups

(mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians)

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Living Nonliving

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Circle all the living things.

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Circle all the nonliving objects.

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Trace the words for living things in green and the nonliving objects in purple.

book cat
piano
cup bug
car
frog corn
picture
tree cow
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Trace the words for living things in red and the nonliving objects in blue.

fly ice
hammer
fish phone wheat
clock carrot

oven
bear bicycle
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Use a bingo marker to identify the nonliving things.

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Draw 2 living things:

Draw 2 nonliving things:

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Living – Nonliving Sort

Cut and glue the pictures below into the correct column.

Living Nonliving

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Characteristics of Living Things Name: ___________________________

Living things are made up of units Living things

called cells reproduce

Living things have a Living things

genetic code grow and develop

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Characteristics of Living Things

Living things obtain and use materials Living things

and energy (metabolism)
respond to their
environment

Living things maintain stable internal Taken as a group, living things

environments (homeostasis) change over time

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Characteristics of Living Things Name: ___________________________

Living things are made up of units Living things

called cells reproduce

Living things have a Living things

genetic code grow and develop

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 Name: ___________________________
Characteristics of Living Things

Living things obtain and use materials Living things

and energy (metabolism)
respond to their
environment

Living things maintain stable internal Taken as a group, living things

environments (homeostasis) change over time

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Cut the pieces out below. Glue them into the correct space on the pages above.

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Write L if the item is LIVING and N if the item is NON-LIVING.

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Write L if the item is LIVING and N if the item is NON-LIVING.

L L
N

N N

N
N L

L L
N

N L
L
L N

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This is a grub. Grubs live in the soil. They are the larva of
various beetles and chafers such as the Japanese beetle (top
right), June beetle (bottom right), and European chafer. An
adult beetle will lay its eggs in your lawn or garden and when
that egg hatches what emerges is a white grub.

Grubs hatch in the fall and begin to eat the roots of plants until winter arrives, at
which point they retreat down below the frost level until spring.

These are barnacles. They are a type of crustacean and are related to
crabs and lobsters.

This is a krill. It is also a type of crustacean. They eat a lot of plankton.

Many other animals feed on krill such as seals, whales, seabirds, fish and
squid.

The foxface fish is a fish found around reefs and lagoons in the
tropical Western Pacific.

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grub. Grubs live in the soil. They are

This is a

the larva of various beetles and chafers

such as the Japanese beetle (top right), June beetle
(bottom right), and European chafer. An adult beetle will lay
its eggs in your lawn or garden and when that egg hatches
what emerges is a white grub.

Grubs hatch roots

in the fall and begin to eat the of plants until
winter arrives, at which point they retreat down below the frost level until
spring.

These are barnacles. They are a type of crustacean and

are related to crabs and lobsters.

krill. It is also a type of crustacean. They eat a lot of

This is a

plankton. Many other animals feed on krill such as

seals, whales, seabirds, fish and squid.

foxface fish is a fish found around

The
reefs and lagoons in the tropical Western
Pacific.
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This is a __________. Grubs live in the soil. They

are the ___________of various ________________
and chafers such as the Japanese beetle (top right),
June beetle (bottom right), and European chafer. An
adult beetle will lay its eggs in your lawn or garden
and when that egg hatches what emerges is a white grub.

Grubs _______________ in the fall and begin to eat the

_____________ of plants until winter arrives, at which point they retreat
down below the frost level until spring.

These are ________________. They are a type of crustacean and

are related to _______________ and _______________.

This is a __________. It is also a type of crustacean. They eat a

lot of __________________. Many other animals feed on krill
such as _________________, ________________, seabirds,
fish, and squid.

The ________________ fish is a fish found around

________________and ______________in the tropical
Western ______________.

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What you can do next:

Here are some of the activities we did after the living and nonliving sort:
• Vertebrates and Invertebrates Sort
• The 5 animal groups Sort
• Animal characteristics – Feather, Fur, Scales and Skin
• Invertebrates – insects vs. spiders
• Wild vs. domesticated animals
• Nocturnal vs. Diurnal Animals
• Animal homes and shelters
• Migration, Hibernation
• Animal tracks
• World Animals and the 7 continents
• Animal Life Cycles
• Plus, we also studied the rainforest and rainforest animals and insects, polar animals and more!
• As the kids got older we began to go into more details - Biomes, Food Chains & Food Webs, Biological
Interactions… and Scientific Classification and Taxonomy.

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Animal Packet: Our animal unit covers the types of animals, animal characteristics,
invertebrate groups, spiders vs. insects, and more!
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The Herbivore/Carnivore/Omnivore notebook pages have two option – tracing for younger kids
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The Herbivore/Carnivore/Omnivore identification worksheets have two option – fill in the letter
H, C or O or write in the word herbivore, carnivore, omnivore:
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 World Animal Packet
Animals of the 7 continents, Montessori-Style Sorting Cards
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Animals of the African Savanna – These activities are also now included in the World Animal
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Life Cycles Packet
All living things go through changes as they grow and develop! This new 50+ page Life Cycles
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If your kids are fascinated by Carnivorous Plants (like the Venus Flytrap used in
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