Habitats Lesson
Overview
This lesson is about the various types of shelter animals live in and how they adapt to their environment.
Habitat Lesson Plan
| Teacher: Evelina Jackson Subject: Science Class: 2E Dates: 5/1 – 5/5, 2022 |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Standards:2-LS4-1. Use scientific inquiry/research skills to make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. | Objective: Students will be able to define the term habitat and list the four basic elements which habitats provide for animals to survive there. | Objective: Students will be able to define the term habitat and list the four basic elements which habitats provide for animals to survive there. | Objective: Students will be able to identify three different types of habitats, as well as wildlife that lives in each. | Objective: Students will be able to identify three different types of habitats, as well as wildlife that lives in each. | Objective: Students will be able to identify three different types of habitats, as well as wildlife that lives in each. |
| Focus Questions | How do animals and plants depend on their habitats for survival? | Where do animals and plants find water in different habitats? | Why are animals’ habitats important? | Do animals have adaptations to help them survive? | How can we protect animal habitats? |
| Direct Instruction | The teacher will state the objective to the students clearly. The teacher will post and write these three questions that students should be able to answer. 1. What am I learning today? 2. Why am I learning this? 3. How will I know that I learned it? My learning intentions and success criteria will be posted also with the “I can statement”.The teacher will ask the focus question to get the kids ready to learn about habitats. I will explain the various type of animal habitats. | The teacher will state the learning objective to the students clearly. The teacher will review new vocabulary words. Next, the teacher will have the students watch a YouTube video on “Animal Habitats and where they live” | The teacher will state the objective to the students clearly. The teachers will help students understand that animals live in many kinds of habitats by showing students an anchor chart of where animals live. Next, the teacher will introduce new vocabulary words for this lesson | The teacher will state the objective to the students clearly. Next, the teacher will help students understand that animal adaptation helps them survive in their habitats.The teacher will show students examples of different animals with structural adaptations. | The teacher will take students outside to look for habitats. |
| Guided Instruction | The teacher will ask students some prior-knowledge questions such as: What do already know about habitats? | The teacher will write Desert, Forest, Ocean, and jungle on the board and ask students to think about each habitat and what animals and plants they might see in that habitat. (Grassland, forest, mountain, desert,) | The teacher will ask students to name 5 parts of a habitat: Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Space, | The teacher will ask students to think about some of the different kinds of habitats they may see when walking in their neighborhood.The teacher will have students describe what the adaptation are (lizard=mimicry, bird= beak) | The teacher will review the lesson on animal habitats with students. The teacher will show photos of animal’s habitats and ask students to describe the environment. |
| Independent Practice | The students will draw on cards pictures of animals that would live in each habitat. | The teacher will have students write, in twenty words or less, a definition of habitat in their science journal. | The students will create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two different animals by habitats. | The student will write a descriptive sentence about animal habitats with a detailed illustration. The students will divide pictures of animals into behavioral adaptations and will record responses in a notebook to justify why each animal was placed in each category. Ex: bear, skunk, giraffe. | The students will write two sentences in their science journal what could happen if people in their community don’t take care of their habitat. |
| Closure | Today we discuss what is a habitat and where animals lived. | Today we named some different habitats such as (grassland, forest, mountain, desert). | Today students gave examples of animals that live on land, water, and both. | Today we shared with partners an animal who lives in one of the habitats that were listed on the smartboard. | Today, we will review some things we learned about habitats before taking our quiz. |
| Assessment | The student will complete a worksheet on animal habitats to assess understanding. | The students will complete a five animal habitats worksheet by matching the habitat with its description and an animal that lives there. | Students will match the animals to their listed home by completing the science worksheet on Animal Habitat. | The students will brainstorm a K-W-L chart on animal habitats. | Students will take a science quiz and complete a worksheet to classify the animals and put them in the correct habitat. |
| Materials | Video YouTube on animal habitatsIndex cards | Science Journal photosWorksheet | ChartWorksheet Animals Adaptations Pictures | K-W-L Chart | Assessment – QuizWorksheet |
| DifferentiatedActivity Stations A-E | Below grade level: The students will work at this Station A with a partner on a habitat worksheet guessing which animal habitat each animal live in. Then print the name of the animal in each space. | On grade level: Students will work at Station B with their peers on filling in the blank worksheet with the correct home of where animal live. Ex: Ocean, Desert, Rainforest | Beyond grade level: The students will work at Station C drafting a short essay comparing two different habitats. | Students will rotate to this Station D to watch a video on “Animal Habitats on land and in water.” | The teacher will call each separate group one at a time to question them to check for understanding to give and get feedback from the worksheets and drafting essay. |
Action Plan
| Goals | Objectives | Activities | Materials | Timeline | Resources |
2-LS4-1 Use scientific inquiry/research skills to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
| Students will be able to define the term habitat and list the four basic elements which habitats provide for animals to survive there. Students will be able to identify three different types of habitat as well as wildlife that lives in each. | Warm-up Exercise Vocabular Words (habitat, shelter, people, places) Interactive videos and activities Animal Cracker Habitat Shoe Box Habitat Pictures of animals in their habitat | Science Worksheets Paper and Pencil Interactive video and activities images of different habitats ipads, computer, Promethean boards, Science Journals, Quiz, Shoeboxes, Crackers, Index cards. KWL Chart | Week | Curriki-/(https://www.currikistudio.org/org/currikistudio/project/15927) Khan Academy OER Commons YouTube
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