Living Non-Living Venn Diagram Worksheet
A blank two-circle Venn diagram compares a living polar bear to a nonliving teddy bear, asking students to sort attributes unique to each and traits they share.
- Grades
- Grades 2–5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Science, Life Sciences, Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences
- Topic
- Living and Non-Living Things, living and nonliving things for kindergarten
- Resource types
- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Preparation
- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
This Venn Diagram Worksheet is a great way for students to compare living and nonliving things. The worksheet is easy to use and helps students understand the difference between living and nonliving things.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Distinguish characteristics of living things from nonliving objects
- Sort attributes into unique versus shared categories using a Venn diagram
- Compare a real animal to a toy representation of the same animal
Teaching tips
- Brainstorm a class list of polar bear traits and teddy bear traits before students fill in their own diagrams, since the page provides no example traits
- Discuss the 'Both' section explicitly, since students often struggle to find genuine overlap between a living and nonliving item
- Pair with a broader living and nonliving sorting lesson, since this single diagram assumes students already understand the basic concept
Skills covered
- living and nonliving things
- compare and contrast
- graphic organizers
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Are the living and nonliving traits provided on the diagram, or must students supply them?
Students supply them -- the diagram is blank except for the two labels ('Polar Bear' and 'Teddy Bear') and the word 'Both' in the center; no example traits are pre-filled.
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- living vs. nonliving classification
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