Living vs non living kindergarten

Spring is definitely my favorite time of year to teach Science! There are just so many hands-on concepts that are so interesting to the students. Plants, of course, is always so interesting because they are something the kids can see all around them and they all have some kind of experience with. First up, here are some of our centers we have going on during our study of plants. This first one is the same green mat as the one below, just with different sorting objects. This is our Spring…

To introduce our living/nonliving/plants/animals unit we started with the four questions a scientist would ask. I combined charts that I saw by Krazy in Kindergarten and Mini Muffin Mondays. Then we explored living and non living with gummy worms and meal worms. The students recorded their evidence in their journals along with a drawing. Here are the lessons my team used for the first four days of the unit. Then we moved into plants... ...and grew grass! In the third week we moved on to the…

Get a free game and sorting cards to assist you in teaching your living vs non-living unit. There are other activities, such as emergent readers available too.

FREE Living vs Non-Living Learning Pack - This Reading Mama

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Good use of brainstorming as a class and separating out living and non living things with the guide of a teacher

Anchor Chart Living or Non-living Science