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Living or not living?
I can sort living and non-living things.
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Ages 5 to 7 · Science
Living or not living?: I can sort living and non-living things.
Here is a squirrel. It is a living thing.
Here is a teddy. It is a non-living thing.
What can living things do?
Picture: Squirrel: 1 squirrel and Teddy: 1 teddy bear.
A squirrel can move about.
It feeds. It eats nuts.
Living things move and feed.
Picture: Squirrel: 1 squirrel and Nuts: 3 chestnuts.
A plant is living. A seed grows into a seedling.
The seedling grows into a sunflower.
It makes seeds. Living things have young!
Picture: A cycle with 3 stages: Seed, then Seedling, then Sunflower, and back to Seed.
Your turn: Which one is living?
Choose one:
- Rock: rock
- Sunflower: sunflower
- Teddy: teddy bear
Answer
The answer: Sunflower
The sunflower. It grows and makes seeds.
Words to know
- living:
- Alive. A living thing grows, moves, feeds and has young.
- non-living:
- Not alive. It never grows, feeds or has young.
- feed:
- Take in food. Plants make their own food.
- young:
- The babies of a living thing.
- seedling:
- A young plant that grows from a seed.
- needs:
- What a living thing must have to stay alive.
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