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Organizer
Curated OER

Living Things?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this living things graphic organizer worksheet, students decide whether the 10 things listed are living or not as they consider the 7 attributes included on the chart.
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Worksheet
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Totally Cellular

For Students 7th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students learn about cells and their various parts. They first read a page and a half of facts about cells and then answer the 10 questions in the packet. The answers are on the last page.
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Lesson Plan
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Life Processes and Living Things-Humans and Other Animals

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this fill in the blank worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions by identifying foods that contain large amounts of sugar, carbohydrate, and fruit acids and explaining their effects on the body.
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Lesson Plan
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Habitat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are able to define habitat. They are able to identify the four things that living things need to survive. Students are able to describe how living things are adapted to their habitats.
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Lesson Plan
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Investigating Local Ecosystems

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the habitats of local plants and animals. They explore some of the ways animals depend on plants and each other. Students observe living organisms in a local ecosystem and create detailed drawings and descriptions...
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Lesson Plan
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Reconstructing the Squares

For Teachers K - 8th
Students visit an outdoors area and mark out a square on the ground that they examine, looking for living and non-living things. They make a model or drawing of the findings from the actual square.
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Lesson Plan
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Is It Alive?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore living things and their habitats. They create an original It's Alive! book to demonstrate what they have learned.
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Lesson Plan
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Living and Nonliving Things

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between living and nonliving objects, and compare living organisms and nonliving objects.
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Lesson Plan
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Hatching Brine shrimp

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the life cycle using brine shrimp as an example. They conduct observations by watching the shrimp hatch out of cysts. Students design simple experiment to structure an observation. The experiment is approved...
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Lesson Plan
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Living Things

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn to group living things,basic needs of living things, that there are many different living things and that each has an environment. Students learn how living things adapt to both their environment and for survival...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Insects in Nature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lab, students will collect insects while making close observations of living things. They will then classify insects into seven common groups based on characteristics discussed in the classroom.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Classification of Organisms Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take an interactive quiz over the classification of living things. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.