👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will tell the difference between living and nonliving things by looking at movement, growth, and needs.

Vocabulary
living, nonliving, grow, move, breathe, need, food, water

Teaching Notes

• Use pictures or objects (toy car, cat, plant).
• Ask: “Does it move by itself? Does it grow? Does it need food or water?”
• Explain that living things need air, food, and water; nonliving things do not.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Living things are things that grow, move, breathe, and need food and water.
Nonliving things do not grow, move by themselves, or need food or water.

More Samples and Helping Ideas

• A cat is living because it and eats.
• A rock is nonliving because it does not .
• A seed is living; it can grow into a .
• A toy car can move only when pushed, so it is .

Vocabulary and Definition

• — things that grow and need food and water
• — things that do not grow or need food and water
• — to become bigger or taller
• — to change place or position
• — to take in air
• — something required to live
• — something that gives energy
• — what living things drink to stay alive

Words to Learn

, , , , , , ,

Sentences to Fill In

1. A tree is a thing.
2. A rock is a thing.
3. Living things and change.
4. Living things need and water.
5. A car moves only when pushed, so it is .
6. Animals air.
7. Plants need and sunlight.
8. Living things can on their own.
9. A chair cannot grow, so it is .
10. A puppy is alive because it can .

Reflection

• What is one example of a living thing?
• What is one example of a nonliving thing?