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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 1 of 7

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.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.L2U1.8; K.L1U1.6 · the differences between living and non-living things, and what plants and animals need

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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 1 of 7 in Kindergarten Science, before Weather & Seasons.

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

    A dog is thirsty. What does it need?

    🐕
    • ⚽a ball
    • 🛏️a bed
    • 💧water

  2. Question 2

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

    Sort into: 🌱 living · 🪨 not living

    • 🌻sunflower
    • 🚗toy car
    • 🐟fish
    • 🐕dog
    • 🥄spoon
    • 🪑chair

  3. Question 3

    What does a plant need to grow?

    🌱
    • 🍬candy
    • 🧸a toy
    • 💧water

  4. Question 4

    What do we breathe in to stay alive?

    • 🧃juice
    • 🌬️air
    • 🏖️sand

  5. Question 5

    Which one is living?

    • 🌳a tree
    • 🪨a rock
    • 🧸a teddy bear

  6. Question 6

    What do animals need to live?

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

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