What’s on the Living or Not Living? poster
LIVING against NOT LIVING, side by side.
- LIVING: Grows bigger over time
- LIVING: Needs food or water
- LIVING: Can make more of itself
- LIVING: Reacts when something changes
- LIVING: A dog, a tree, you, a worm
- NOT LIVING: Stays the same size
- NOT LIVING: Needs nothing
- NOT LIVING: Cannot make more of itself
- NOT LIVING: Does not react on its own
- NOT LIVING: A rock, a chair, a toy, water
- A car moves and drinks fuel but cannot grow or make baby cars — so it is not living.
Ask three things: does it grow, does it need food, can it make more of itself?
Questions about the Living or Not Living? poster
- What’s on the Living or Not Living? poster?
- LIVING against NOT LIVING, side by side. LIVING: Grows bigger over time; LIVING: Needs food or water; LIVING: Can make more of itself; LIVING: Reacts when something changes; LIVING: A dog, a tree, you, a worm; NOT LIVING: Stays the same size; NOT LIVING: Needs nothing; NOT LIVING: Cannot make more of itself; NOT LIVING: Does not react on its own; NOT LIVING: A rock, a chair, a toy, water; A car moves and drinks fuel but cannot grow or make baby cars — so it is not living.. Ask three things: does it grow, does it need food, can it make more of itself?
- Who is the Living or Not Living? poster for?
- Living or Not Living? is filed under Kindergarten (ages 5–6), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting science, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Living or Not Living? poster?
- Pick anything in the room and run it through the three questions. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Living or Not Living? belongs on the wall where that science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Living or Not Living??
- Where Animals Live, Butterfly Life Cycle and Day and Night sit alongside Living or Not Living? in the Kindergarten set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Where Animals LiveButterfly Life CycleDay and Night
- Is the Living or Not Living? poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Living or Not Living? downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kindergarten set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Living or Not Living? poster print at?
- Living or Not Living? is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Living or Not Living? loses nothing.Printing guide
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