• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (What animals need to survive). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Why does a rabbit need a burrow? (to make the soil wet / to grow taller / for shelter and to stay safe / to find sweets) → for shelter and to stay safePrompt: What does a home give an animal?
2. What animals need: which statement is true? (Animals need air to breathe. / Animals only need food, never water. / Fish do not need oxygen. / Animals can make their own food from sunlight, like plants.) → Animals need air to breathe.Prompt: Think about what you need to live.
3. What animals need: which statement is NOT true? (Animals get energy from their food. / Many animals need shelter from weather and predators. / Animals need air to breathe. / Animals can make their own food from sunlight, like plants.) → Animals can make their own food from sunlight, like plants.Prompt: One sentence is a mistake.

• Show a picture of an unusual animal and ask where it might live and how it survives there.
• Share the objective: Animal homes: nests, burrows, hives and more. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Where does a rabbit live?
• Step 1: Rabbits dig burrows underground to hide and stay safe.
• Step 2: So the answer is: burrow
• Answer: burrow
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Where does a bee live? (web / cave / den / hive) → hivePrompt: Think about what this animal builds or finds to stay safe.
2. Which animal lives in this home: anthill? (ant / rabbit / beaver / bat) → antPrompt: Picture the home: is it underground, in a tree, in water or made of silk?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 8 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Which animal lives in this home: hive? (bee / beaver / bear / robin) → beePrompt: Picture the home: is it underground, in a tree, in water or made of silk?
2. Why do birds build nests high in trees? (because grass is too soft / because it is warmer at the top of trees / to keep their eggs and chicks away from animals that might eat them / so the eggs can fly) → to keep their eggs and chicks away from animals that might eat themPrompt: Who might want to eat eggs on the ground?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/science/kindergarten.