Sort Them Out

Sort into living, once living, and never alive.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 46

Scientists sort things into groups. We can sort into three groups: living, once living, and never alive.
Living things grow and need water, like a cat.
Once-living things came from a living thing, like a log from a tree.
Never-alive things never grew at all, like a rock.
Your turn! Sort them.
Try it with a grown-up! Gather some things from outside, and sort them into the three groups.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

SKL1.b — Develop a model to represent how a set of organisms and non-living objects are sorted into groups based on their attributes.