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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 8 of 9

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.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 0L.1.2.1.2 · comparing the plants and animals that live in different habitats

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 Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 8 of 9 in Kindergarten Science, after Stormy Weather and before Make It Work.

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: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

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 animal lives in the ocean?

    • A horse
    • A squirrel
    • A whale
    • A cow

  2. Question 2

    Why do people plant gardens?

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

  3. Question 3

    What do people build to live in?

    • Houses
    • Webs
    • Nests of mud
    • Dams

  4. Question 4

    Why does a squirrel live near trees?

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

  5. Question 5

    Why do bees live near flowers?

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

  6. Question 6

    Prairie dogs dig tunnels. Why?

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

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