Living and Nonliving

This school year has been crazy so far! In science we just wrapped up our living and nonliving unit. We learned the characteristics of living things. For our intro to the topic I gave pairs of students a gummy worm and an earthworm. I asked them to compare the two and notice the differences. We made an anchor chart and got to the conclusion that one was living and the other was nonliving. The kids loved it! Most of them even got up the courage to hold or touch the earthworms. Definitely a great topic intro to get students engaged!

Don't worry afterwards the kids got to eat a clean gummy worm :)