SEEd - Kindergarten
Lesson Plans

Strand K.2: LIVING THINGS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS

Living things (plants and animals, including humans) depend on their surroundings to get what they need, including food, water, shelter, and a favorable temperature. The characteristics of surroundings influence where living things are naturally found. Plants and animals affect and respond to their surroundings.

Standard K.2.1

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to describe patterns of what living things (plants and animals, including humans) need to survive. Emphasize the similarities and differences between the survival needs of all living things. Examples could include that plants depend on air, water, minerals, and light to survive, or animals depend on plants or other animals to survive. (LS1.C)

• Animal Habitats 1
  This is a lesson plan for activities intended to teach students what a habitat is, some of the types of habitats found around the world, and different animals that live in them.  It includes a discussion about the word, photos depicting various habitats, a game of guessing where a particular anmimal would live, a decodable/rebus page about habitats, and a drawing page/class book showing an animal in its habitat.   cover photo:"White Tigers, Singapore Zoo {Explore}" by Eustaquio Santimano is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
• Animal Habitats 2
  This is a lesson intended to help kindergarten students connect animal habitats to how those animals meet their need for water, food, shelter, and space.
• Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals
  This 3-day activity reinforces what students have learned about animals. The activities focus on farm animals: cows, pigs, hens and ducks.
• Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
  This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as science activities.
• Kindergarten Qobo Robot: Are You A Snail?
  This is a potential lesson plan derived from a summer camp activity. It was based off a specific technology. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
• Kindergarten Qobo Robot: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  This is a potential lesson plan derived from a summer camp activity. It was based off a specific technology. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
• Kindergarten Science
  This lesson is a 30-45 minute lesson for Kindergarten. It teaches the parts of a flower while exploring flowers with a magnifying glass outside. It also teaches one of the five senses: sight. 
• Pets - Stuffed Animal Day
  Students will bring a stuff animal to school and create a class graph and individual pet books.
• Std UT.SEEd.K.2.1 Animals Eat in Interesting Ways Lesson Plan|Resources
  Phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students.
• Std UT.SEEd.K.2.1 So Many Plants Lesson Plan|Resources
  Phenomenon-based, 5E lessons that align to the SEEd standards. Lesson folders include lesson plans, a slideshow, and supporting materials for teaching the lesson to your students.
• UT.SEEd.K.2.1|UT.SEEd.K.2.2 Survival Needs of Animals
  Google folder with Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files

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