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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 3 of 13

What Living Things Need

Food, water, air and sunlight

What your child practices

Telling living from non-living things, and what plants and animals need to live: food, water, air, shelter and sunlight.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.3; K.4 · telling living from nonliving things, and what plants and animals need to survive

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Living things grow and change. Toys and rocks do not.
  2. Plants and animals need water, air and food.
  3. Plants need sunlight too.

Example: Which one is living: a ball or a bird? A bird grows and eats. A ball does not. Answer: a bird

What Living Things Need in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 3 of 13 in Kindergarten Science, after Make It Work and before Living Things.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which one is NOT living?

    • ⚽a ball
    • 🌷a flower
    • 🐈a cat

  2. Question 2

    What do animals need to live?

    🐇
    • 🧸toys
    • 📺a TV
    • 🍎food and water

  3. Question 3

    What do roots take in for the plant?

    🌱
    • ☀️sunlight
    • 💧water
    • 🧸toys

  4. Question 4

    Living or not living? Tap a picture, then its basket.

    Sort into: 🌱 living · 🪨 not living

    • 🐕dog
    • 🐟fish
    • 🐞ladybug
    • 🥄spoon
    • ⚽ball
    • 👟shoe

  5. Question 5

    Plants need light. What gives plants light outside?

    🌻
    • 🪨a rock
    • 🌬️the wind
    • ☀️the sun

  6. Question 6

    What do we breathe in to stay alive?

    • 🧃juice
    • 🏖️sand
    • 🌬️air

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