Use a T-Chart to compare and contrast the characteristics of living and nonliving things 0307.2.1

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1. Graphic Organizers - (T-Charts and others)
   1. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included
   2. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
   3. Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
   4. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
   5. Graphic Organizer Links - links to a large number of graphic organizers provided by Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, LA - Second page of links from the same school system
   6. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
   7. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
   8. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
   9. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
   10. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
   11. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
   12. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
   13. Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers - A list of links from eMINTS and The Curators of the University of Missouri
   14. Text 2 Mind Map - a web application that converts texts to mind maps – Enter a structured list of words or sentences and Text2Mind Map will interpret it and make a mind map out of them that you can print.
   15. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn
   16. Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
2. Living and Nonliving - A lesson plan that is five activities in one inquiry [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
3. Living vs Non-Living Quiz - This quiz is based on the information about the six characteristics of living things. For each of the questions determine if it is a living or a non-living organism. Clicking on the answer allows you to check your answers. Good luck!
4. Ourselves - use this BBC site to investigate living and non-living
5. Plants and Animals in the Local Environment - collect all of the living things in the environment pictured
6. What is a Living Thing, and How Does a Living Thing Respond to Its Environment? - [Unit Overview - 6 lessons] - In this unit students are given time to think about and discuss the fundamental question, "What is a Living Thing?" They are also introduced to a process for planning science investigations on the topic of how different living things interact with their environment.
7. T Chart (and other graphic organizers) - templates from Enchanted Learning
8. Worksheet for classifying living and non living things [this expired page is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]

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