Living or Non-Living? Identify and Explain
Circle the living things, use the life-characteristics word bank to explain your choices, then draw and label an example of your own.
- Year groups
- Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Years 2–3 (Key Stages 1–2)
- Pages
- 1
- File type
- Subject
- Biology, Earth Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Science
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- England expectations
- Year2 > Living things and their habitats — explore
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About this resource
This activity is a great way for students to practice identifying living things and determining why they are living. This would be a great activity to use in a science centre or as a whole class activity.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- 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
Teaching tips
- Review the four word-bank terms as a class before pupils work independently, since the writing task depends on pupils 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."
Skills covered
- Living-thing classification — pupils circle which pictured items are alive.
- Scientific vocabulary application — pupils select and write characteristics (grows, breathes, uses energy, adapts) that justify each classification.
- Science communication — pupils draw and label an original example of a living thing.
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National Curriculum in England
National Curriculum in England expectations
England expectations
England expectations
- Year2 > Living things and their habitats — explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Characteristics of living things
- Life vs. non-life
- Scientific vocabulary
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