Living and Non Living Things Worksheet: Am I Living?

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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 coloring 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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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.

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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 center 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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Core concepts

living vs. nonliving things
characteristics of living things
life science

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