Living And Nonliving Worksheets

Help students decide whether something is living by considering life criteria. Flexible activity formats let them work with supplied pictures, drawings, cutouts, or stickers.
Grades
Pre-K–2, Elementary
Pages
9
File type
PDF
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Updated Jun 27, 2025

Subject
Science, Life Sciences
Topic
Living and Nonliving, Life Science
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Workbooks, Worksheets
Preparation
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Product description

From the author

Get students learning about living and nonliving things with these science worksheets. Students will answer several questions about an image to determine if what is represented by the image is living or nonliving.

What is Included:

  • There are three worksheets where students will answer the questions about the provided images to determine which images are living things and which are nonliving things.

  • There is one worksheet where students will draw their own images to determine if they are living or nonliving.

  • There is one worksheet for students to cut out magazine images to determine if those images are living or nonliving.

  • There is one worksheet where students will add a sticker to determine if the image on the sticker is living or nonliving.

What Questions are Asked:

  • Do I grow and change?

  • Do I eat food?

  • Do I breathe?

  • Do I reproduce?

  • Am I living?

When to Use:

  • Science Center - The worksheets can be placed in a science center for students to learn about living and nonliving things.

  • Homework - These worksheets make a wonderful homework activity for parents to see what their students are learning.

  • Morning Work - These no prep worksheets allow teachers to create quick and easy morning activities for students while they wait on their classmates to arrive to class.

  • Independent Practice - These worksheets are great for students to independently work on living and nonliving things.

  • Emergency Sub Plans - The no prep nature and easy to set up activity, makes these worksheets a great activity to leave with subs to assign to students.

  • Small Group Activity - These worksheets can be used in small groups so teachers can target the students who need extra practice with living and nonliving things.

  • Writing Review Activity - These worksheets work well as a review to reinforce student's learning of living and nonliving things.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Discuss questions about life processes while classifying pictured subjects as living or nonliving.

  • Use observations and teacher explanations to support a classification.

Teaching tips

  • Model the supplied-picture pages before the blank, drawing, magazine or sticker versions.

  • Explain that plants make food rather than eat like animals, and that reproduction describes a life process rather than a requirement for each individual organism.

  • Discuss why a nonliving thing can grow or change; one response alone does not determine whether something is alive.

Skills covered

  • Observing and classifying pictured subjects

  • Recording yes/no responses and discussing their meaning

  • Explaining a living/nonliving classification with teacher support

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What picture options are included?

Three pages supply pictures. A blank sheet and separate drawing, magazine-picture and sticker sheets let you choose other examples. Each activity page has three rows and the same life-process questions.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Living vs. nonliving things

  • Characteristics of living things

  • Life science

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