Characteristics of Living Things Worksheet

Identify which of several pictured items are living things

Justify a living/non-living classification using specific characteristics of life (grows, breathes, uses energy, adapts)

Illustrate and label an example of a living thing

Review the four word-bank terms as a class before students work independently, since the writing task depends on students already knowing what each term means.

Use the discussion prompt as a partner talk step between the circling task and the writing task, since the page explicitly separates "circle," "write," and "discuss."

Living-thing classification — students circle which pictured items are alive.

Scientific vocabulary application — students select and write characteristics (grows, breathes, uses energy, adapts) that justify each classification.

Science communication — students draw and label an original example of a living thing.