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Living Things and Their Needs

• Grades:
• K-2

The Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide provides resources that allow very young students to explore living and nonliving things and learn about the basic needs of plants, animals, and people. (10 activities)

The guide provides the following hands-on activities:

1. Pre-Assessment: What do students already know?

2. Need or Want? What is the difference between basic survival needs of human beings and things not essential for life?

3. Needs of Plants: What do plants need to grow?

4. Animals’ Needs: What is the difference between a worm model and a live worm?

5. Plant or Animal? What is the difference between a plant and an animal?

6. Food for Kids: How does cooking make some foods easier to eat?

7. We Need Water: Where can we get the water we need every day?

8. Air and Breathing: What is breathing?

9. A Place to Be: Can animals be matched to their “places to be”?

10. Post-Assessment: What have students learned?

The guide is also designed to be used with Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun (student storybook) and two supplements: The Reading Link and The Math Link (language arts and mathematics worksheets activities related to the storybook).

Although the activities are most appropriate for use with students in grades K–2, the lessons are easily adaptable for other grade levels. The guide is also available in print format.

Download: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide