Science - 3rd Grade
Educational Links

Standard 2

Students will understand that organisms depend on living and nonliving things within their environment.

Objective 1:

Classify living and nonliving things in an environment.

• Build an Online Habitat
  Make your own habitat! Just add plants and animals.
• Is It Alive?
  Watch this cool video and see if you can spot living and nonliving things.
• Living & Nonliving Interactions
  In this lesson plan dtudents will explore producers, consumers, decomposers and food chains.
• Living and Non-Living Things
  See if you can group the things shown on the list into either living or non-living.
• NationalGeographic.com Habitats
  This website includes resources for many of the different habitats around the world. It also has lesson plans for K-12.
• The Open Door Web Site: Living and Non-Living Things
  Do you understand the difference between living and non-living things? Take this quiz to find out.
• Utah National Parks
  Check out Utah's five National Parks and all the things that can be learned from them.
• Virtual Pond Dip
  Discover what lives in a drop of pond water by exploring A Virtual Pond Dip.
• What is it Like Where You Live? Biomes of the World
  Learn about the world's major environments: rainforests, tundras, taigas, desert, temperate and grasslands.
• What Tree is That?
  You can identify most trees by studying their leaves, seeds, and fruit. This animation will help you learn to identify these characteristics and take a step-by-step approach to arrive at the name of your tree.

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