Page 1 of this kindergarten sheet is a table with four pictured columns, puppy, rock, tree and toy robot, and four question rows: does it grow, does it need food and water, does it breathe, and does it make more of its kind. Students circle Yes or No in every cell and Living or Nonliving in the last row. Page 2 asks for a drawing of one more living thing and one more nonliving thing, each with a label. The answers page fills in the table.
“Use features such as growing and needing food and water to decide if something is living.”
Page 1 asks four questions about four pictures and ends with a Living or Nonliving row.
“Give and label examples of living and nonliving things.”
Page 2 gives a box and two label lines for each.
Four pictures across the top and four questions down the side. Students circle Yes or No in 16 cells, then circle Living or Nonliving for each picture in the last row.
Two drawing boxes, one for a living thing and one for a nonliving thing, each with two lines to write a label.
The filled table, with Yes for the puppy and the tree and No for the rock and the toy robot, plus a note that drawings and labels will vary.
Fill in one column together
Do the puppy column on the board with students, then let them try the rock alone. The rock column is all No, which shows the pattern fast.
Spend time on the tree
Students often say a tree is not alive because it does not move. Ask which of the four questions the tree answers Yes to.
Guess the drawing
Collect the page 2 drawings and hold them up one at a time. The class guesses living or nonliving before anyone reads the label.
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