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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 8 of 13

Where Animals Live

Animals live where they can get what they need.

What your child practices

Practices matching plants and animals to places that meet their needs, and noticing how animals and people change their surroundings to get what they need.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: K.5; K.6 · where animals live, and how they make homes and depend on the plants around them

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Animals live where they find food, water and a home.
  2. Frogs live near ponds. Squirrels live near trees.
  3. People change places too, like planting a garden.

Example: Where does a fish live? A fish needs water to swim. It lives in a lake or stream. Answer: in water

Where Animals Live in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 8 of 13 in Kindergarten Science, after Natural or Made and before Sun & Shade.

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

    Why does a squirrel live near trees?

    • For snow
    • For nuts and a home
    • For salt water
    • For sand

  2. Question 2

    What does a spider build to catch food?

    • A road
    • A dam
    • A house
    • A web

  3. Question 3

    Why do bees live near flowers?

    • Flowers give them food
    • Flowers are rocks
    • Flowers are cold
    • Flowers are salty

  4. Question 4

    Where does a cow get food?

    • In a grassy field
    • In a cave
    • On a rooftop
    • In the ocean

  5. Question 5

    Why do people plant gardens?

    • To make snow
    • To grow food
    • To stop the sun
    • To make wind

  6. Question 6

    Elephants push down trees. This changes…

    • the sun
    • the moon
    • the place they live
    • the stars

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