Do you teach Living and Non-Living characteristics to your preschool or kindergarten students? If you do, you may like some of my
Living/Non Living activities. Check them out below!
I introduce the topic of Living and Non-living things by using these slides. Slides tend to keep the kiddos engaged, which is important when teaching young students. They show the students that living things are things that need food and water, living things are things that grow, living things are things that move and breathe, and living things are things that reproduce.
You can also print off the slides to create a book if you choose!
After we go thru the slides, we complete
this Living vs. Non-Living pocket chart sort. We discuss if the items on the cards move, breathe, grow, reproduce etc. as we place them in the chart. The kiddos love to use the pocket chart in the classroom! I will place this as an independent center after we use it whole group. 👈
Students then complete a sorting printable after the pocket chart activity! This makes great independent practice.
After reading the emergent reader we complete this "Is It Alive?" Chart
We draw items that are living and non-living.
We color things that are living.
We complete this writing activity that lets the students find living objects in a magazine and then write about them. (Keeping a stack of old magazines in your classroom can help with projects like this!)
We also sort living and non-living things that we find in a magazine. This makes a perfect learning center activity.
We go on a Living vs. Non-Living Scavenger Hunt Outside! We find things that were/are living, and things that were never living. The students love to take this activity outside!