Living things change places · Kindergarten
How do animals, plants and people change the places where they live?
Animals and plants change the places where they live to get what they need.
People change places too, like building homes.
Standard: K-ESS2-2*. Children construct an argument, supported by evidence, for how plants and animals (including people) can change their environment to meet their needs.
What your child does: helps a beaver build a dam and sees a stream turn into a pond; compares before and after; then, for five pictures, says who changed the place (the claim) from the clues in the picture (the evidence) and what they needed (the reason): food, water or a home.
Talk about it: "How do you know a squirrel did it?" · "Why did the tree's roots crack the sidewalk?" · "How have people changed our street?"
Try it for real: go on a walk and hunt for evidence: holes in a lawn, a cracked sidewalk, a nest, an anthill, a garden someone planted. For each, ask "Who changed this, and why?"
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