Living and Non Living Things
Classifying everything around us as living and nonliving is one of the first concepts we teach in early elementary science because it is so fundamentally important.
- Students will be able to compare living and nonliving things.
- Students will be able to identify characteristics of living and nonliving things.
- The term living thing refers to things that are now or once were alive.
- Non-living things do not eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce. They do not have senses.
The interactions between living things and their non living environment makes up a total ecosystem; understanding any one part of it requires knowledge of how that part interacts with the others.
