Which One Is Different? Living and Non Living Things
About this worksheet
Four rows of four pictures, and in each row one item does not belong. Row one is a cup, a key, a tree and a kite, so the tree is the odd one out for being alive. Row two flips it: a rabbit, a lamp, a cat and a dog, where the lamp is the intruder among three animals. Rows three and four keep alternating, so the child cannot settle into circling the same kind of thing every time.
Alternating the direction is what makes this more than a spotting exercise. A child has to work out what the other three share before deciding which one breaks the pattern, and that is a harder question than “is this alive,” asked in a form a kindergartner can answer with one pencil stroke. It is the quickest sheet in the set, good for five minutes at the end of a lesson.
What students will practice
- Find what three pictures have in common
- Spot the item that is not living, or not an object
- Circle one answer per row
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
