Living Things

The Basic Need of Living Things

In this unit we will...

● compare living and nonliving things.
● identify the basic things that living things need in order

to survive.

Click here for vocabulary practice.

Day ONE:

Instructions: Watch the video, listen as Jack Hartman
sings about living things.

As you watch the video, think
about….

What do living things need

to survive, or live?

Instructions: Click on the picture and drag it to the correct
flying saucer. Is it a living thing or a nonliving thing?

Instructions: Use what you now know about living and
nonliving things to make a comparison.

Living things need ____________________, ___________________, and

_____________________ to survive.

Non livings do not need ____________________, __________________
or _____________________ because they are not _________________.

Hint: Go to the video to review!

Day TWO:

Instructions: Click on the cover of the book below and

read to learn about what living things need.

Instructions: Use what you learned from reading the text
and drag the basic need of a living thing to its definition.

Day THREE:

Instructions: Watch the video. Think about what
living things need to live. Write three things they
need in the boxes below.

Instructions:
Drag the
living things
into the
scene, where
they belong.