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🔬 Kindergarten · ScienceK-LS1-1Unit 4: What living things need

What animals need

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🎯 Objective: Students describe what animals need: food, water, shelter.

Lesson outline

  1. Pet visit or video.
  2. Sort foods.
  3. Draw an animal home.
  4. Exit: one need.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K-LS1-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Kindergarten — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe what plants and animals need to survive
  • Explain how living things change their environment

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Animals🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “What living things need”

  1. Living or nonliving?
  2. What plants need
  3. What animals need
  4. Animals change their homes
  5. Taking care of Earth

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