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Beside the Tetherball Pole

Use playground observations to explain how roots, ants, a squirrel, and people change their surroundings to meet their needs.

KindergartenScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned toK-ESS2-2

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  • 1 NGSS standard
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  • 8 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Kindergarten
Subject
Science
Question types
Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify changes that plants, animals, and people make to their surroundings.
  • Students explain how a change helps a living thing meet a need.

How to use

Read the passage and questions aloud. Let children point to choices or mark answers, then discuss how each change helps a living thing.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

K-ESS2-2

Explain how plants and animals, including people, can change their surroundings to meet their needs.

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Beside the Tetherball Pole

Look for ways living things change a place.

Look Around the Corner

Listen to the passage. Choose one answer for each question.

A Playground Corner

A tree grows beside a playground's tetherball pole. Its roots take in water from the soil. As the roots grow, they push soil aside.

Ants carry soil out of holes. Rain falls. The ants stay dry inside their tunnels.

Children rest beside the pole. They squint in the bright sun. Workers put up a shade roof. Later, children rest under it, out of the sun.

1.
What change do the growing roots make?
  • A. They carry soil into the tree.
  • B. They move soil out of their way.
  • C. They build a roof over the soil.
  • D. They fill the ant holes with leaves.
2.
How do the tunnels help the ants?
  • A. They give the ants food to eat.
  • B. They give the ants sunlight to warm up.
  • C. They give the ants shelter from rain.
  • D. They give the ants leaves to sleep on.
3.
The children want to rest out of the bright sun. Which change helps?
  • A. Making a taller tetherball pole
  • B. Adding more balls beside the pole
  • C. Making a wider spot in the sunshine
  • D. Putting a shade roof over the rest spot

Think About the Changes

Listen to one more observation. Use it and the passage to answer.

In the same tree, a squirrel brings dry leaves into a hole. Later, it curls up on the leaves and sleeps.
4.
How does moving the leaves help the squirrel?
  • A. It makes a soft place to sleep.
  • B. It makes a place to collect drinking water.
  • C. It makes a sunny place to warm up.
  • D. It makes a path to reach the playground.
5.
Who makes each change? Remember, people are animals too.
Workers put up a shade roof.Growing tree roots push soil aside.A squirrel brings leaves into a tree hole.Ants dig tunnels in the soil.
PlantsAnimals, including people
6.
How are the ant tunnels and the shade roof alike?
  • A. Both collect water for living things.
  • B. Both shelter living things from weather.
  • C. Both help living things reach food.
  • D. Both give living things a sunny spot.
7.
Circle the TWO observations that show a living thing changing its surroundings.

An ant carries soil out of a hole.A squirrel sleeps on the leaves.A worker puts up a shade roof.A child squints in the sunshine.

8.
Choose the squirrel or the people. Tell what they changed and how the change helped. Use a clue from the page.

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