What living things need: K to 2nd science
What plants and animals need, and where they live. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: what plants and animals need, and where they live.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: What does a plant need to grow?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (10 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: what living things need.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (15 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: What Plants Need (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-what-plants-need)
- Play: Who lives where? (https://peabody.kids/animals/habitat-sorter)
- Make: A bean plant in the dark (https://peabody.kids/science-fair/projects/bean-plant-in-the-dark)
- Read: Mia and the Two Rabbits (https://peabody.kids/library/mia-and-the-two-rabbits)
- Try: Quiz: living things (https://peabody.kids/practice/sci/life)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about what living things need, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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