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What Living Things Need

Living Things Review

Day 134of 180
Week 27of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify four basic needs of living things: food, water, air, and shelter

2

Demonstrate understanding by matching needs to different living creatures

3

Recognize God's design in providing for all living things

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 104:14

“He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth.”

— Psalm 104:14 (WEB)

Demonstrates God's intentional provision of needs for all living creatures

📦 Materials Needed

  • Plant and animal cards from BibleMouse Resource Guide
  • Blank white paper
  • Crayons or markers
  • World English Bible
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse science adventure! Let's review what we learned about living things yesterday.

💭 Review Question: Can you tell me one animal habitat we talked about yesterday?
2Teaching (8 min)

Every living thing needs four special things to survive: food, water, air, and shelter. Just like God carefully designed the world to take care of all creatures!

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Food gives creatures energy to grow
  • Water helps living things stay healthy
  • Air helps us breathe and plants make oxygen
  • Shelter keeps creatures safe from danger
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What do you think a bird needs to live?
  • How do plants get their food?
3Activity: Living Things Needs Matching Game (10 min)
discussion

Use BibleMouse animal and plant cards to match creatures with their specific needs

📝 Instructions:
  1. Spread out animal and plant cards
  2. Find food, water, air, and shelter for each creature
  3. Talk about how each living thing gets what it needs
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps match cards

Challenge: Child explains how each need is met

4Closing (3 min)

Recap the four needs and thank God for His amazing design

📝 Review Questions:
  • What are the four things living things need?
  • Who makes sure all creatures have what they need?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about caring for God's wonderful creation!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Kindergarteners are concrete learners who understand basic survival needs

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use lots of visual demonstrations
  • Encourage hands-on exploration
  • Connect science to God's design
🤔 Common Struggles:

May have trouble understanding abstract concept of 'needs'

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child can name at least two needs for different creatures

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Draw a picture of an animal with its four needs
  • Go on a nature walk and observe living things
  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for additional worksheets

Ready for Tomorrow?

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