• 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. What do all animals need to stay alive? (sweets and fizzy drinks / food, water and air / a television / toys and games) → food, water and airPrompt: Think about what you need every day to live.
2. What animals need: which statement is true? (Animals can make their own food from sunlight, like plants. / Fish do not need oxygen. / Animals get energy from their food. / Animals only need food, never water.) → Animals get energy from their food.Prompt: Think about what you need to live.
3. What animals need: which statement is NOT true? (Animals need air to breathe. / Animals need water to survive. / Fish do not need oxygen. / Many animals need shelter from weather and predators.) → Fish do not need oxygen.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 hermit crab live? (den / nest / hive / an empty shell) → an empty shellPrompt: Think about what this animal builds or finds to stay safe.
2. Which animal lives in this home: den? (rabbit / beaver / bat / bear) → bearPrompt: 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. Why do birds build nests high in trees? (so the eggs can fly / 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) → to keep their eggs and chicks away from animals that might eat themPrompt: Who might want to eat eggs on the ground?
2. Where does an ant live? (lodge / den / nest / anthill) → anthillPrompt: Think about what this animal builds or finds to stay safe.

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