Sort It! Living and Non Living Things Worksheet
About this worksheet
A two-column table sits at the top with eight dashed landing squares, four under Living and four under Not Living, and the pictures to cut out run along the bottom: a lion, a clock, a toothbrush, a cactus, a teapot, a butterfly, a penguin and a bicycle. It works out to exactly four each way, so a child who has filled one column knows what is left belongs in the other.
The cactus is the one to watch. Plants read as objects to a lot of five year olds, because they do not move and they do not have faces, and a hint printed above the table gives the test to apply: living things grow and need water. Cutting and gluing slows the whole activity down, which is the point here, since every picture gets handled and thought about once more before it is committed to a column.
What students will practice
- Decide whether something is living or not living
- Sort pictures into two labeled columns
- Cut along a dashed line and glue in place
Details
- Grade level
- Kindergarten
- Subject
- Science · Living things
- Standard
- NGSS K-LS1-1
- Pages
- 1
- Format
- PDF · US Letter and A4 included
- License
- Free for classroom use · Attribution appreciated
- Last updated
- September 21, 2026
