Kindergarten students sort 12 picture cards on this 3-page life science sheet. Page 1 has a chart headed LIVING (a sprout) and NONLIVING (a rock). Students cut and glue the cards into the right box, or draw a line to match, from a dog and a tree to a chair and a toy car. Page 2 shows four pairs, such as a cat and a teddy bear, and students circle the living thing in each. The answers page lists both columns and the four circled pictures.
“Sort familiar pictures into living and nonliving.”
Page 1 asks students to place all 12 cards in one of two columns.
“Tell a living thing from an object that looks like it.”
Page 2 pairs a real sunflower with a plastic one and a real frog with a toy frog.
A two-column chart with a sprout over LIVING and a rock over NONLIVING. Twelve cards sit below it: dog, rock, tree, chair, fish, ball, flower, toy car, child, pencil, bird and cup. Students cut and glue them, or draw lines.
Four boxes, each with two pictures: cat and teddy bear, sunflower and plastic flower, frog and toy frog, apple tree and lamp post. Students circle the living one in each box.
The six living and six nonliving cards in two columns, then the four circled answers: cat, sunflower, frog and apple tree.
Cut and glue station
Set out scissors and glue sticks and let students build the chart themselves. Students who are not ready to cut can draw lines from each card instead.
Talk about the toys
Page 2 pairs a frog with a toy frog. Ask what the real one does that the toy cannot, and write grow, eat and move on the board.
Quick check
Use page 2 on its own as an exit ticket. Four circles take a couple of minutes and show who sorts by what a thing does, not by how it looks.
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