Animals & Their HomesGrade 1 Science for Kids

Where animals live, how their bodies help them, and how they grow.

Animals & Their Homes takes first graders to meet animals of the land and the sea. Kids find out where animals live, how their bodies help them survive and how a chick grows from an egg, with voiced lessons and fun experiments.

  • Grade 1 · Ages 6–7
  • 3 lessons
  • 3 experiments
  • 12 practice questions
  • About 25 min
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  • Animal Homes
  • Land or Water?
  • Animal Bodies
  • Animal Race
  • Animal Babies
  • Egg to Hen

Science lab course · Grade 1

Animals & Their Homes · Learning goals

What Your Child Will Learn

Meet animals of the land and the sea, find out where they live, race the fastest runners and see how a chick grows from an egg.

  • Animals live where they can find food, water and a safe place.
  • Animal bodies help them live. Long legs help cheetahs run, and shells keep turtles safe.
  • A chicken's life goes egg, chick, hen, and then a new egg. It's a cycle!

Why it matters

Why This Matters for Kids

  • Love of nature

    Learning about animals builds kids' natural curiosity and care for wildlife.

  • Habitats

    Matching animals to homes introduces the idea that living things fit their environment.

  • Life cycles

    Watching a chick grow from an egg is a first look at how living things change over time.

Inside Animals & Their Homes

How the Course Works

Each level has a short read-aloud lesson, an interactive experiment and a mini quiz.

  1. Step 1 · Lesson

    Animal Homes

    Animals live in many places. Some live on land and some live in water.

  2. Step 2 · Experiment

    Land or Water?

    Every animal has a home that gives it food, water and safety. Let's find out where these animals live.

  3. Step 3 · Lesson

    Animal Bodies

    Animal bodies help them live. Fish have fins to swim. Birds have wings to fly.

  4. Step 4 · Experiment

    Animal Race

    Let's race three animals! Their bodies are very different. Who will reach the finish line first?

  5. Step 5 · Lesson

    Animal Babies

    Some baby animals hatch from eggs, like chicks, turtles and ducks.

  6. Step 6 · Experiment

    Egg to Hen

    A chicken grows up in steps. Can you put the steps of its life in order?

Lesson preview

A Peek Inside the Lesson

This is the real lesson text your child hears, read aloud by a friendly voice.

Animal Homes

Animals live in many places. Some live on land and some live in water.

A bird builds a nest. A rabbit digs a burrow under the ground.

Bees live in a hive. A bear sleeps in a den in the winter.

Fish and whales live in the sea. They can breathe in the water!

Animal Bodies

Animal bodies help them live. Fish have fins to swim. Birds have wings to fly.

A giraffe has a long neck to eat leaves high in the trees.

Some animals have long, strong legs to run very fast, like the cheetah.

A turtle carries a hard shell. It is safe but slow.

Animal Babies

Some baby animals hatch from eggs, like chicks, turtles and ducks.

Other babies are born and drink milk from their mother, like puppies and calves.

A hen sits on her eggs to keep them warm.

After about three weeks, the chick pecks out of its shell!

For parents

Try It at Home

Learning sticks best when kids use it in real life. Here are simple ideas from this course.

Parent Tip

Look for animal homes outside: a bird's nest, a spider web, an anthill. Talk about why each animal lives there.

Land or Water?

  1. Look at animal pictures in a book.
  2. Sort them into land animals and water animals.
  3. Can you find an animal that lives in both, like a frog?

Animals live where they can find food, water and a safe place.

Animal Race

  1. Have a race with a grown-up: walk like a turtle, then run like a cheetah!
  2. Which was faster?
  3. Talk about which body parts help you run.

Animal bodies help them live. Long legs help cheetahs run, and shells keep turtles safe.

Egg to Hen

  1. Find a book or video about chicks hatching.
  2. Draw the four steps on a paper plate, in a circle.
  3. Tell a grown-up the story of the chick.

A chicken's life goes egg, chick, hen, and then a new egg. It's a cycle!

Practice

Grade 1 Science Practice Questions

Real questions from Animals & Their Homes. Try them with your child, then tap to see the answer.

  1. Question 1

    Where does a fish live?

    • A.In a tree
    • B.In water
    • C.In a burrow
    Show answer

    In water

  2. Question 2

    What helps a fish swim?

    • A.Wings
    • B.Fur
    • C.Fins
    Show answer

    Fins

  3. Question 3

    What does a chick hatch from?

    • A.An egg
    • B.A seed
    • C.A nest
    Show answer

    An egg

The full course has 12 questions with instant feedback, stars and rewards. Create a free account to play them all.

Animals & Their Homes · Questions from parents

Frequently Asked Questions

What age is this course for?

Animals & Their Homes is a grade 1 science course for kids ages 6–7. That is Year 2 science in the UK and Year 1 in Australia. It also works well for review in the next grade, or as a challenge for a confident younger learner.

What will my child learn?

Meet animals of the land and the sea, find out where they live, race the fastest runners and see how a chick grows from an egg. Along the way they practice: Animals live where they can find food, water and a safe place; Animal bodies help them live. Long legs help cheetahs run, and shells keep turtles safe; A chicken's life goes egg, chick, hen, and then a new egg. It's a cycle!.

How long does the course take?

About 25 minutes in total, split into 3 short levels. Most kids finish it over two or three sessions. Progress is saved, so they can stop any time and pick up where they left off.

Is this course free?

Animals & Their Homes is part of SkillBloom Premium, which unlocks every course in every subject. Each subject also has free courses, so your child can try SkillBloom before you decide.

Does my child need to read well to use it?

No. Every lesson has a friendly read-aloud voice, questions are read aloud too, and the pictures help kids follow along. Confident readers can turn the voice off.

Can we use it for homeschool?

Yes. SkillBloom is built for homeschooling families. Kids work through lessons, games and quizzes on their own, and the parent dashboard shows what they finished and which skills need more practice. It works on phones, tablets and laptops.

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