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1st grade science worksheet with sentence frames for classifying living and non-living things and explaining observations.
Open Response Worksheet

Living Things and Non-Living Things

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This printable science worksheet for 1st graders guides students to identify and classify objects, describe their properties, and decide whether they are alive or not alive. Students complete sentence frames explaining what something is, how it looks, and whether it is living based on characteristics like the ability to grow. Useful for science vocabulary, classification practice, or observation activities.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Biology
Grade Level:
1st Grade
Updated October 2025

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