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Living and Non Living Things Worksheets

A repeatable Am I Living worksheet has students judge whether a subject is alive using four yes/no life criteria, in picture, draw, magazine-cutout, and sticker formats.
Grades
Pre-K–2, Elementary
Pages
7
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Updated Jun 27, 2025

Subject
Life Sciences, Science
Topic
Living and Nonliving Things, Living Vs Nonliving Things
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A repeatable 'Am I Living?' worksheet has students examine a picture, drawing, magazine cutout, or sticker of an object or organism and answer four yes/no criteria questions — does it grow and change, eat food, breathe, and reproduce — by colouring a smiling or frowning face, then conclude whether the subject is living. The same format repeats across the file in four variations: a picture-based version, a blank version for student drawing, a magazine-cutout version where students paste in their own images, and a sticker version. Each variation provides three practice rows per page, giving students repeated, low-stakes practice applying the same four life-criteria to different subjects. The file also includes non-instructional pages — a thank-you note, social-media links, and a credit/copyright page — from the resource's creator, Jennifer Connett.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Apply the four criteria of living things (growth, eating, breathing, reproduction) to judge whether an object or organism is alive.

  • Distinguish living from nonliving subjects using observable criteria rather than appearance alone.

Teaching tips

  • Use the picture-based pages first as a whole-group model before assigning the draw-it or magazine-cutout versions independently.

  • Save the sticker version for a centre activity using small sticker sheets.

  • Pair with a nonliving-things picture sort so students practice the criteria on subjects that fail one or more tests.

Skills covered

  • Living-thing criteria application — students evaluate whether a pictured, drawn, or pasted-in subject grows, eats, breathes, and reproduces to judge if it is living.

  • Evidence-based yes/no reasoning — students mark smile/frown responses for each criterion before reaching an overall living/not-living conclusion.

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How do the four versions of this worksheet differ from each other?

The base version shows a printed picture for students to evaluate; a second version asks students to draw their own picture; a third has students paste in a magazine cutout; and a fourth uses a sticker in place of a picture -- all four ask the same four yes/no living-criteria questions.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Living vs. nonliving things

  • Characteristics of living things

  • Life science

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