What Is Living on the Farm? Lesson Plan

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will read an emergent text to distinguish between living things and nonliving things.

 

Science Focus:

living and nonliving

 

Literacy Focus:

emergent texts

 

Page 8 Skill:

critical thinking

 

Vocabulary:

air, babies, breathes, food, grows, living, nonliving, water

 

CCSS:

RI.K.1, RI.K.3, RI.K.7, SL.K.2

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  • Watch our video Is It a Living Thing? Then have children turn and talk with a partner. Have one child name an item and the other tell whether it is living or nonliving. Then have them switch roles.
  • Return to the large group and have them share.
  • Read the mini book together.
  • As you read the book, have kids describe why each thing is living or nonliving.
  • Then do the Show What You Know skill sheet as a follow-up activity.
  • With our Is It Living? Is It Nonliving? game, kids decide which things in a scene are living, and which are nonliving.
  • Our Farm Map skill sheet helps build early map-reading skills.
Example of a chart of living and nonliving things

Materials: None!

  • Play this simple game during classroom transitions, on a walk around the school, or outdoors. Just challenge kids to point to and name living and nonliving things! Here are a few challenges you might pose:
    • Can you name three living things in the playground?
    • Name three nonliving things in the hall.
    • Without moving from your spot, point to one living and one nonliving thing.
  • If kids get mixed up, talk them through the problem. For instance, if a child names a car as a living thing, ask questions like: “Does the car need food? Does it need to breathe air? Does it have baby cars?”
  • Sprinkle challenges throughout the day, and your kids will more deeply understand this tough concept!