This is a quick little unit that teaches children about living and non-living things. I find that most kindergartners can almost always tell you what things are living and what things are non-living, but they cannot tell you why. And there are definitely some tricky ones--for example, most of my kids think that a tree is non-living. And then there is always the discussion of non-living versus dead. They will sometimes say things like, "The rock is dead." So I explain that in order to be "dead," something had to be alive first. And then, most likely, one of you little angels will shout out, "My grandpa is dead." Don't you just love kindergarten! Even after we have completed this unit, we continue to discuss living and non-living things and the differences between them. Every time we start a new unit on animals, plants, insects or even rocks--we ask: Are they living or non-living? How do you know? Day 1 I start this mini-unit by showing the Is it Living? powerpoint. Download Is it living It's just a bunch of pictures--of both living and non-living things. I simply show the pictures and ask the kids if each object is living...