Living and

Non-Living
Things
Objectives

● What are living things?

● What do living things need to live?
● What can living things do?
● What are non-living things?
Science Words

LET’S LEARN!!

Air Eat Non-living Thing

Alive Food Respond
Breathe Grow Water
Die Living Thing Young
Drink Move
Can the toy
robot eat a
banana?
 What are Living
Things?
● There are many living things around us.

● Living things are alive.

Is this cat a living thing?

 What living
What do living
things can you
things need to
see around
live?
you?
What do Living ● Animals are living things.
Things Need to Live? ● People are also living things.

● Living things need air.

Both the fish and the boy need
air to stay alive. ● They breathe.
● Living things need water.

● They drink.
Both the cat and the boy need
to drink water.
● Living things need food.

● They eat.
Both the boy and the panda
need to eat food.
 Living things need air, water and food to stay alive.

Plants are living things too.

A plant needs air, water

and food.
 Quick Check!
Choose the correct answer.

1. Animals eat ( air / food ) to live.

2. Animals take in ( air / food ) when they breathe.

3. Animals need to drink ( water / air ) to live.

What Can Living Things
Do?
● Living Things can move by themselves.

● Living things can respond to changes.

The birds move by themselves.

They fly away when the child
chases them.
● Living things can have young.

People and animals can have

young.
● Living things die. A fish can die.
● Living things change as they grow.

The calf looks more like its

parent as it grows.
Look at some photographs of you
and your family when you were a
baby.

Do you look the same now?

Write down how each person has
changed.
 Quick Check!
Fill in the blanks.

1. Living things change as they ggrow

2. Living things can respond to cchange

3. Living things will ddie if they do not have air.

 Can the
dinosaur toy
eat the donut?
 What are Non- Living
Things?
● There are many non-living things around us.
● Non-living things are not alive.

Is the teddy bear alive?

 What Can’t Non-Living Things
Do?

● Non-living things do not need air.

● They do not breathe.

These toys don’t

need air.
 The rock does not
drink water.

● Non-living things do not need water.

● They do not drink.

 ● Non-living things do not need food.
The car does not eat
food.
● They do not eat.
● Non-living things cannot move by themselves.

● Non-living things cannot respond to changes.

Come here, Kitty! The toy cat cannot

respond to Joe’s voice.
 ● Non-living things cannot have young.

This rubber duck

cannot have young.
● Non-living things cannot grow and change.

● Non-living things are not alive.

● They cannot die.

A plastic plant cannot

grow and change.
It cannot die.

1 year later 5 years later

EXPLORE!!

A seed can grow into a plant.

A seed cannot move by itself.
It can also stay the same for a
long time.

Is a seed a living thing or a non-

living thing?

Discuss with your classmates.

 Quick Check!
Fill in the blanks.

1. Living things need air to live.

Non-living things do not need to bbreathe

2. Non-living things cannot have yyoung

3. A toy train is a non-living things. We have to

push a toy train to make it m move
 Test sel f
You r
Choose the correct answer.

1. Animals are ( living / non-living ) things.

2. Tables, chairs, cups and books are ( living / non-living ) things.

3. Living things need only air and water to stay alive. ( True / False )

4. Non-living things can have young. ( True / False )

5. Living things can die but non-living things do not die. ( True / False )
Decide whether these are Living or Non-Living
Things

This is a girl

Living Thing
This is a bird

Living Thing
 This is a pot

Non-Living Thing
This is a rock

Non-Living Thing
 Non-Living Thing

This is a mango
 Living Thing

This is a fish
 Non-Living Thing
This is a chair
 Non-Living Thing

This is a desk
This is a tree

Living Thing
 SCAVENGER
HUNT!

Take a walk around your school and

find 5 living things and 5 non-living
things in 10 minutes.

Sort them into two tables labelled

‘Living Things’ and ‘Non-Living
Things’.