Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide

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,...

Even as adults it can be hard to distinguish needs from wants. Using pictures of common, everyday items, children make a pocket chart separating the objects they need from those that they want. Discuss their choices, explaining that...

This lesson focuses on living things' need for water. Learners 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 participate in simple cooking activities and learn how cooking makes it easier to eat some foods, such as popcorn. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.

Students learn about the basic needs of animals by creating and observing a worm terrarium. The lesson and student worksheets 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.

In this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson 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...

Each student will make his/her own mini-garden and will observe the growth and development of radishes. To help students learn about requirements for plant growth, the teacher will make four experimental gardens and place them in...

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.