Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Food for Kids

Enrich your study of living things with these cross-curricular math activities. Following along with the story Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun, learners will practice addition and subtraction, learn how to measure volume and length, work on...

Immediately capture the attention of your class with the smell of freshly popped popcorn in the sixth lesson of this series on the needs of living things. Young scientists first use their senses to make and record observations of...

This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.

This lesson focuses on living things' need for water. Young scholars make lemonade and learn that water can be found in liquids other than a glass of water, and is also found in plants. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

Students learn about the basic needs of animals by creating and observing a worm terrarium. The activity and student worksheets can be downloaded in PDF format.

In this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

Students participate in a bubble blowing activity where they learn about air and breathing. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

This is a pre-assessment to be done at the beginning of a unit on the needs of living things. Students draw themselves and what they need to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

A post-assessment at the end of a unit on the needs of living things. The lesson materials can be downloaded in PDF format.

Take a walk and observe living and non-living things on the way. Young scientists practice making valuable observations and draw the details.  You could require that your students complete a T chart of living and non-living things and...