This PowerPoint aims to teach kindergarten students to distinguish between living and nonliving objects. It will present students with groups of objects and prompt them to identify whether each is living or nonliving based on characteristics like ability to breathe, move, grow, and eat. The learning objective is for students to accurately classify objects as living or nonliving. It provides interactive examples and feedback to help students develop an understanding of the difference between living and nonliving things.

2.  Content Area: Science
 Grade Level: Kindergarten
 Summary: The purpose of this instructional
PowerPoint is to give the students the ability
to determine whether an object is living or
nonliving interactively.
 Learning Objective: Given a group of
objects, the student will be able to
distinguish what is living or nonliving with
100% accuracy.
 Content Standard: Interdependence
 Accomplishment: Develop an
understanding of living and nonliving
objects.

3.  Anything that:
› Can breathe
› Can move
› Can grow
› Can eat

4.  Anything that:
› Does not breathe
› Does not move
› Does not grow
› Does not eat

5.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZEUWTU
 http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivitie

6.  Box
 Frog
 Lamp
 Computer

7.  The object you chose is living because it
eats, grows and breathes!

8.  Cat
 Human
 Horse
 Bike

9.  The object you chose is not a living thing
because it does not breathe, eat or
grow!

10.  Kite
 Flower
 Piano
 Scissors

11.  The object you chose is living because it
eats, grows and breathes!

12.  You have now learned the difference
between living and nonliving objects.

13.  Are you sure that living things don’t eat?

14.  Are you sure that nonliving things can
breathe?