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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 7 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.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: K-ESS3-1; K-ESS2-2 · living things live where their needs are met, and they change the places they live

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 New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 7 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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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 rabbit digs a hole. What is it making?

    • A nest in a tree
    • A pond
    • A road
    • A burrow home

  2. Question 2

    Where does a cow get food?

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

  3. Question 3

    A bird uses twigs to make a…

    • dam
    • nest
    • web
    • burrow

  4. Question 4

    What does a spider build to catch food?

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

  5. Question 5

    Why does a squirrel live near trees?

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

  6. Question 6

    Prairie dogs dig tunnels. Why?

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

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