Help your students sort living vs nonliving with this 20-page EduMagnet detective comic—print-ready US Letter landscape PDF.

Grade band: Grade 1 life science · Living & nonliving · Needs of living things

What’s included

• 20-page color comic PDF (US Letter landscape, print or project)
• Story pages covering living vs nonliving, needs (air, water, food, space), plants & animals, once-living, and sorting practice
• Vocabulary bars and kid-friendly science explanations throughout
• Circled page numbers for easy classroom navigation
• Animal cast only (Mr. Dot, Nova, Bloop, Gear)

How to use it

• Whole-class read-aloud or projector lesson to launch a living/nonliving unit
• Science centers or literacy + science crossover reading
• Unit introduction or quick review before a sorting activity or quiz
• Homeschool science reading — no prep: print or project and go
• Comics format supports visual and reluctant readers

Standards

• NGSS support: K-LS1-1, 1-LS1-1 (needs of living things; organisms & survival)
• Grades: K–1 elementary life science / living & nonliving
• Subjects: Science, Life Science, Reading

Perfect for introducing living vs nonliving in a story-driven detective format. © EduMagnet — for one teacher / one classroom.