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1st grade · Science · Unit 3 of 11

Living Things

Living or not? Plant or animal?

What your child practices

Sorting living and non-living things, telling plants from animals, and what living things need to grow.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.12(A) · classifying living and nonliving things

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Living things grow, and need air, food and water.
  2. Plants stay in one place and make food from sunlight.
  3. Animals move around and eat food.

Example: Is a clover a plant or an animal? A clover grows in the ground. It makes food from sunlight. Answer: a plant

Living Things in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 3 of 11 in 1st grade Science, after Objects & Structures and before Ideas from Nature.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A cloud moves and changes. Is it living?

    • 💚Yes, it is alive
    • ☁️No, it is not alive

  2. Question 2

    Which one is living?

    • 🌳tree
    • 🪨rock
    • 🪑chair

  3. Question 3

    What do plants need to grow?

    🌱
    • 🍬candy
    • 🎵music
    • ☀️sunlight and water

  4. Question 4

    Which one is an animal?

    • 🌲pine tree
    • 🦌deer
    • 🪨rock

  5. Question 5

    Is it living or not living? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 🌱 living · 🧱 not living

    • ✏️pencil
    • ⚽ball
    • 🚗toy car
    • 🐞ladybug
    • 🌷flower
    • 🪱worm

  6. Question 6

    Plants use sunlight to make their own…

    🍃
    • 🪨rocks
    • 🍽️food
    • 🔊noise

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