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Introduction Strategies:
Pocket Chart Science — Animals and Habitats © Learning Resources, Inc.
• Walk around school property. Identify different natural areas (lawn, woods, pond, and so on).
List plants and animals children recognize. Use words to describe each area you visit, such as
"grassy," "woody," and "wet."
• Name examples of different animals. For each, suggest the animal might be found in a very
unlikely place (e.g., a whale might be found in a forest). As children correct you, challenge
them to explain why animals don’t just "live anywhere."
• Collect pictures of animals in outdoor settings. After you have completed the unit, challenge
children to create a habitat display. They can label pictures, identifying each animal and its
habitat. Children can also list ways in which each animal is adapted to its environment.
• Have children talk about their favorite animals and where they are found. Ask them to
identify what makes a good home for an animal. You might have them think about the
comforts of their own homes to generate ideas.
• As a class, generate a list of ideas and questions children have concerning animal survival.
Consider such concepts as getting food, staying safe, and raising families. After you have
completed the unit, revisit this list.
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Teaching Notes: Habitat, Sweet Habitat
Cards needed: (blue )
non-living
habitat living things
things
Background information:
Simply put, "habitat" is defined as the place where a particular plant or animal naturally is found. It can
be thought of as a combination of living and non-living things, all of which contribute to how the
habitat looks and functions. Living things include plants and animals. Non-living things include air, soil,
water, and chemicals (minerals and nutrients found in soil and water, for example). Habitats are also
shaped by weather patterns, or climate. Climate controls which vegetation will grow in a given habitat;
plants, in turn, control which animals a habitat can support.
An animal depends on its habitat for energy (in the form of food and water) and shelter. Animals are
designed for, or adapted to, the habitats where they live. That is, they have bodies and behaviors that
help them to survive in their environment. Adaptations help animals get food, protect themselves, and
reproduce.
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Name ___________________________________
Activity 1
1. _____________________ 2. _____________________
Pocket Chart Science — Animals and Habitats © Learning Resources, Inc.
3. _____________________ 4. _____________________
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Teaching Notes: At Home in Biomes
Cards needed: (red )
tropical temperate
biome desert tundra taiga grassland freshwater marine
rainforest forest
Background information:
Habitats are mainly classified according to their vegetation and their climate. Around the world,
habitats with similar vegetation and climate form large regions called biomes. Scientists recognize more
than two dozen types of biomes. The major biomes include:
• tundra • temperate forest
• desert • grasslands
• taiga • freshwater
• tropical rainforest • marine
Because animals are so adapted to the habitats or biomes where they live, many animals can be easily
Activity 2
At Home in Biomes
Directions: Use the words in the Word Box to describe each biome. You will use
some words more than once. Below, label each picture with its biome name.
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Teaching Notes: Classes of Critters
Cards needed: (orange )
insects crustaceans
mammals birds arachnids • We have a hard outer
amphibians • We have a hard, outer
• We are covered • We are covered fish reptiles • We have a hard, skeleton.
• We have smooth, skeleton.
with hair. with feathers. • We are covered • We are covered outer skeleton. • We don’t have a
slimy skin. • We don’t have a
• We have a • We have a with slimy scales. with dry scales. • We don’t have a backbone.
• We have a backbone. backbone.
backbone. backbone. • We have a backbone. • We have a backbone. backbone. • We are cold-blooded.
• We are cold-blooded. • We are cold-blooded.
• We are warm- • We are warm- • We are cold-blooded. • We are cold-blooded. • We are cold-blooded. • We mainly live in water.
• We live in water as • As adults, we have six
blooded. blooded. • We live in water and • We breathe with • We have eight legs • We have two antennae,
young and on land as legs, two antennae, two body sections, and
• We give birth to • We have wings breathe with gills. lungs. and two body
adults. three body sections, pairs of leg-like parts
live young and feed and most of us fly. • We lay eggs in water. • We lay eggs on land. sections.
• We lay eggs in water. and usually wings. used to swim, crawl or
them milk. • We lay eggs. • We lay eggs.
• We lay eggs. hold food.
Note: Also use all adult animal picture cards for this activity.
Background information:
When studying animals, scientists group them according to similar characteristics and functions. This
method of organizing animals is called taxonomy. One level of taxonomy involves organizing animals
into classes, the most common of which include mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects,
arachnids, and crustaceans. One of the easiest ways to identify animals in each of these classes is by
their appearance. Each class of animals has its own type of body covering (e.g., hair, scales, an
exoskeleton, etc.) Other characteristics, such as being cold-blooded (having a fluctuating body
temperature) versus warm-blooded (able to control body temperature), or laying eggs versus giving birth
to live young, also help to distinguish members of one class from another.
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Name ___________________________________
Activity 3
Classes of Critters
Directions: Use the clues and words from the Word List to solve each animal riddle.
Below, label each animal’s picture with the name of the class it belongs to.
Who am I? __________________
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Teaching Notes: Animal Diets
Teaching Notes: Cards needed: (pink )
Note: Also use all adult animal picture cards for this activity.
Background information:
All animals need energy to grow and stay healthy. Animals called herbivores eat plants for energy.
Animals called carnivores eat other animals for energy. Animals called omnivores eat both plants and
animals for energy. An animal that hunts other animals for food is a carnivore. The animal it kills and
eats is its prey.
Animals are consumers. They must get their energy from other living or once-living things. Plants are
producers. They make their own food, using energy from the Sun. Plants are essential to life on Earth,
because they form the first link in all food chains. A food chain shows how energy passes from one life
form to another. The first two links in a food chain are a plant and the animal which eats it. They are
connected by arrows, which show the direction in which energy flows through the food chain. From this
point on, links are formed by carnivores and omnivores. A single animal is linked to many food chains on
the basis of its diet, and as a result, food chains connect to form what scientists call food webs.
Help children create the remaining examples listed above, as well as their own examples, using the
remaining animal picture cards. Remove the cards from the pocket chart.
Activity 4
Animal Diets
Directions: Choose the word that correctly completes each sentence.
Below, draw a line from each animal to its correct diet.
3. Animals that eat both plants and animals are called _____________.
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Teaching Notes: Animal Life Cycles
Cards needed: (green )
Background information:
All living things complete a series of steps known as the life cycle. These steps include: birth, growth,
maturity (reaching adulthood), reproduction, and death. The time that passes from birth to death is
known as the life span. Some animals are born looking like smaller versions of their parents. Their
anatomy and appearance are very similar at birth to the way they will look as adults. This is the case
with mammals, fish, birds, and reptiles, for example.
Other animals look very different from their parents at birth. Their bodies go through distinct changes
as they grow. This process is known as metamorphosis. First, the young animal hatches from an egg. In
the case of insects, it may be a worm-like larva or a wingless nymph. In the case of amphibians, it is
an aquatic, legless tadpole. As the young animal grows, its body changes. An insect larva like a moth
eventually encloses itself as a pupa inside a cocoon, and then it emerges as an adult. The nymph then
develops wings and other adult body structures. The amphibian tadpole loses its tail, grows legs, and
develops organs for life on land.
Activity 5
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Teaching Notes: Animal Homes
Cards needed: (purple )
home
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Name ___________________________________
Activity 6
Animal Homes
Directions: Draw a line from each animal to its home.
Below, write about how animals find and use homes.
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Teaching Notes: Animal Defenses
Cards needed: (yellow )
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Name ___________________________________
Activity 7
Down
1 2 1. underground tunnel
2. animal that hunts and kills
3
other animals
6. name for newborn frog
7. reptiles and fish are covered
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with these
9. chemicals are thought of
as this. (Hint: They are
not alive.)
11. animal that has hair and is
warm-blooded
5 6 7
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8 9 10
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Across
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3. name for one who takes in food
4. name for hot, dry, sandy biome
5. big change some growing animals go through
8. describes energy flow from one living thing to
Word Bank
life cycle food chain
another that eats it flight class
10. place where plants and animals are found non-living habitat
metamorphosis burrow
12. name for a group of animals that look and act alike
desert consumer
13. way to avoid danger by escaping from it predator tadpole
14. living things complete this from birth to death mammal scales
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Cards-At-A-Glance
Reading List Cards are shown as front-to-back pairs.
Labels indicate animal diets. See key below.
Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Animal
Habitats taiga biome
• moist, with cool,
Jim Arnosky H
short summers
• main plant life:
conifers (evergreen
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trees with needle-
Aladdin Paperbacks, NY: 2000 shaped leaves)
Anita Ganeri
Millbrook Press, CT: 1997 look like
grassland
parents
C H
How Animals Protect Themselves
Michel Barre freshwater flight
Garth Stevens Publishing, WI: 1998
marine biome
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saltwater,
including oceans
C marine fight
Animal Defenses and seas
Etta kane
Kids Can Press, NY: 1999 mammal carnivore
freshwater
biome
birds
• We are covered
with feathers.
• We have a reptile omnivore
C H backbone.
• We are warm-
blooded.
• We have wings
and most of us fly.
• We lay eggs.
mammals
amphibian food chain
• We are covered
with hair.
• We have a
H C backbone.
• We are warm-
blooded.
• We give birth to
live young and
feed them milk
insect producer
insects
• We have a hard,
outer skeleton.
• We don’t have a
O C
backbone.
• We are cold-
blooded.
arachnid predator
• As adults, we have
six legs, two
antennae, three
body sections, and
usually wings.
• We lay eggs.
amphibians
• We have smooth,
crustacean prey
slimy skin.
• We have a
backbone.
O H • We are cold-
blooded.
• We live in water
as young and on
land as adults.
• We lay eggs in
water. biome top predator
reptiles
• We are covered
with dry scales.
• We have a
backbone. tropical
O O • We are cold- home
blooded.
• We breathe with rainforest
lungs.
• We lay eggs on
land.
C H
crustaceans
• We have a hard
outerskeleton.
• We don’t have a
backbone.
• We are cold-
C H blooded.
• We mainly live in
water.
• We have two
antennae, two body
sections, and pairs of
leg-like parts used to
swim, crawl or hold
food.
arachnids
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• We have a hard,
outer skeleton. C: Carnivore
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H: Herbivore
backbone.
C C • We are cold-
blooded.
• We have eight
legs and two body
sections.
• We lay eggs.
O: Omnivore
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