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1st grade · Science · Unit 7 of 7

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 1.L2U2.7; 1.L2U1.8 · habitats, and how living things get the resources they need from their surroundings

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. Whales live in the ocean. Birds make nests of twigs.
  3. People build houses and plant gardens.

Example: Which animal lives in the ocean: a whale or a cow? A whale swims in salt water. Answer: a whale

Where Animals Live in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 7 in 1st grade Science, after Basic Needs & Life Cycles.

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: Arizona Department of Education

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 home is right for a bear in winter?

    • A den
    • A nest
    • A web
    • A pond

  2. Question 2

    Where do salmon hatch from eggs?

    • In the sand dunes
    • In a tree
    • In a stream
    • In a nest of sticks

  3. Question 3

    Where does a frog live?

    • Near a pond
    • On a mountaintop of snow
    • In a dry desert
    • In an oven

  4. Question 4

    What does a spider build to catch food?

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

  5. Question 5

    A bird uses twigs to make a…

    • nest
    • burrow
    • web
    • dam

  6. Question 6

    Prairie dogs dig tunnels. Why?

    • To build nests in trees
    • For a safe home
    • To make it rain
    • To find the ocean

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