Living and Nonliving Things

Over the course of a few weeks our class learned and discussed about living and nonliving this. 

We introduced the topic by watching a video from YouTube.

Afterwards we created a list of what living things can do. The students helped us think of some living and nonliving things to write down on our class list. 

The students then worked on a sheet with pictures which they had to cut-out and decide which section it belonged in. 

Completed Living and Non-Living Things 

The following day we went around the school with Mrs. Minnis' class on a nature walk to find living and nonliving things. Each student had a ziploc bag and collected what that they found. Some even had magnifying glasses or containers to collect bugs and insects!

Observing the spider Mrs. Kinard caught. 

We collected a spider and some ants from an ant farm!

During workstations the students were able to sort objects under 'living' and 'nonliving' on the ACTIV Board, netbooks and desktop computers. 

 Some students observed the ants and spiders we caught as they were in the science center during workstations. 

On another day we went out to an area at our school so that they students may sit and observe their surroundings. The task was for them to draw or write living and nonliving things that they see around them. 

A few weeks later we talked about Earthworms and how important these living things are. We watched videos and read books about them. 

Garden Wigglers by Nancy Lowen was one of the books that we read.

We had our students think, pair and share something that they learned about Earthworms. We created this list with their responses. 

The students then compared earthworms to animals that we studied the previous week. Some animals they compared earthworms to include fish, squirrels, dogs or cats. They wrote sentences about the two animals and drew pictures of them.