Kindergarten Science by Ambur Robbins

What Do Animals Need?

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:20:11 UTC

Standard:

K-ESS-2.1 Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live.

Objective:

Students will create a model that accurately represents the relationship between the needs of animals and the places they live.

Engage

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:23:17 UTC

Activity: The class will watch the Generation Genius video together as a large group. The teacher will then lead a class discussion based on facts in the video. The teacher will introduce vocabulary terms. Students will help the teacher categorize the needs of three different animals from the video using cut outs on the large board or projector. The teacher will ask strategic questions to assess learning.

Objective: After watching the Generation Genius video, students will identify the basic needs of animals with 80% accuracy.

Explore

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:23:58 UTC

Activity: The teacher will read the book What Do Living Things Need? by Elizabeth Austen to the large group. Students will then be released into student pairs to partner-read the same book together. Each student pair will have a different worksheet displaying a picture of a habitat. Working with their partners, students will cross out elements of the illustration that plants and animals do not need, and green circles around the elements that plants and animals do need.

Objective: Through discussion, students will explain how elements of the habitats meet the needs of plants and animals.

Explain

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:25:15 UTC

Activity: After reading the book and completing their worksheet, student partners will choose two other partner pairs to share their habitat worksheet with. Student partners will explain to other students what the plants and animals on their paper need and why they think the animal needs those things. They will explain why some of the elements in the illustration are things that the plants and animals do not need. Students will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss their reasoning with each other.

Objective: Through discussion, students will explain how elements of the habitats meet the needs of animals.

Elaborate

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:25:43 UTC

Activity: Working individually, students will construct a 2D natural habitat from the work packet. They will color, cut out, and glue plants and animals in an environmental scene. They will present their model to the class and explain how the elements of their scene meet the needs of the plants and animals, using some vocabulary terms.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of how the needs of animals are met by their environments by constructing a habitat model that are 80% accurate.

Evaluate

educrobb6730 — 2025-01-24 05:26:50 UTC

Assessment: Teachers will evaluate students on accuracy, use of vocabulary, and reasoning for their model and their presentation. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concept to at least an 80% accuracy.

Objective: The lesson will be evaluated for quality and effectiveness based upon student assessment.