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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 8 of 11

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.12(B) · animals' need for food, water and shelter where 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 8 of 11 in Kindergarten Science, after Plant Parts at Work and before Magnets & Light.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 road
    • A burrow home
    • A pond

  2. Question 2

    Where does a cow get food?

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

  3. Question 3

    Where does a fish live?

    • On a cloud
    • In water
    • In the desert sand
    • In a tree

  4. Question 4

    Worms dig in the soil. What happens to the soil?

    • It turns to ice
    • It gets loose and airy
    • It disappears
    • It turns to water

  5. Question 5

    A bird uses twigs to make a…

    • dam
    • web
    • nest
    • burrow

  6. Question 6

    Where can a duck find what it needs?

    • A dry desert
    • A snowy rock
    • A pond with plants
    • A parking lot

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