Living Things and Their Needs is part of Smithsonian Science for the Classroom, a new curriculum series by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. It is designed to support kindergarten teachers in implementation of:

Our world includes living and nonliving things that interact in their environments. Every living thing has needs that it must meet if it is to live and grow. Living Things and Their Needs provides hands-on, inquiry-based investigations focused on phenomena that support ideas related to the preferred living habits of living things. Through a series of four lessons, students identify living and nonliving things, their needs, and the ways that living things can change their environment.