What Living Things Need

Lab Brief #1

🎯 Your mission

Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

What you'll learn

Living things need food, water, air, and space to survive. Without these, they cannot live.

Key words

survive
To stay alive by getting food, water, and shelter.
food chain
The path showing who eats whom to pass energy along.

Make a hypothesis first

Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Draw a food chain: start with the sun, then a plant, then an animal that eats it, then a predator.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Look for something that changed. What is it?

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Circle the correct answer on your worksheet.

Question 1 of 3

Which do all animals need to survive?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

Why do living things need space?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What happens to a living thing without food or water?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

Next: Animal Habitats All lessons

🎯

Next Smart Experiment

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: This shows up in your everyday life more than you'd think.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Try one experiment in real life this week — even a tiny one.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's the most surprising thing you learned today?”

💧Share card

Share this experiment

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

What Living Things Need

Next Smart Experiment

Share this experiment

What Living Things Need

Done with science? Try something else

Your Cart (0)