NGSS science · Kindergarten

K-LS1-1 games

Find patterns in what plants and animals need to survive.

K-LS1-1 is part of the Next Generation Science Standards. These 2 games practice it. Standards vary by state, so check with your kid’s teacher for the exact match.

The games

Alive or Not? Living things, what they need, plant parts, animal groups, life cycleskindergarten to 2nd grade
Food Chain Producers, consumers, decomposers, food chains and webs2nd and 3rd grade

Alive or Not?: In a sunny greenhouse, picture cards say their names. Kids decide what's alive, what living things need, the parts of a plant, which group an animal belongs to and the steps in a life cycle.

Food Chain: At a pond and meadow, kids sort producers, consumers and decomposers, say what an animal eats, build food chains with arrows from food to eater, read a food web and follow the energy.

Practice it at home

On a walk, sort what you see into living and not living. Is a rock alive? A tree? A cloud?
Trace your dinner back to the sun: the chicken ate grain, and the grain grew from sunlight.