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Grade Level: 1st
State Standards Connection:
ILO:
Standard 1
Objective 2: Communicating Science: Communicating effectively using science language
and reasoning
Indicator C: Connecting ideas with reasons (evidence)
Standard 4: Life Science. Students will gain an understanding of Life Science through the
study of changes in organisms over time and the nature of living things.
Objective 2: Living things change and depend upon their environment to satisfy their basic
needs.
Indicator A: M ake observations about living things and their environment using the five
senses.
Specific Lesson Objective:
Students will classify animals based on their habitats and what they eat.
Lesson Purpose:
How can we take care of Earth’s habitats?
Vocabulary Focus:
Habitat: a place where an animal naturally lives or a plant naturally grows; their home.
Herbivores: animals that eat only plants.
Carnivores: animals that eat meat.
Omnivores: animals that eat both plants and animals.
Materials: 12 different plastic toy animals, 25 habitat worksheets, printout of definitions,
25 homework sheets, picture of a polar bear
Anticipated Time Frame: 30-45 minutes (?)
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Engage and Launch: (15-20 minutes)
1. Show students a picture of a polar bear.
2. “Do you recognize this big white furry animal?”
3. “Where does it live?”
a. Answer: North Pole
4. “What’s the weather like there?”
5. Ask students to look at what is all around the polar bear in the picture: ice and
snow.
6. Polar bears live where it’s cold and icy all the time.
7. If you went to the North Pole, you would have to bundle up with a jacket and scarf
and hat and mittens and boots.
8. “Do polar bears have to bundle up like we do?”
9. “Why not?”
a. Answer: because they stay warm with their thick white fur.
10. “What would happen if a polar bear went on a trip to Hawaii where palm trees, and
there’s beaches, and the sun shines brightly?”
a. Answer: the polar bear wouldn’t feel comfortable.
11. When you feel hot, you can take off your jacket, but a polar bear can’t take off his
thick coat of fur!
12. Polar bears would not be comfortable in a hot place and it wouldn’t feel like home
because polar bears live in a habitat that is always cold.
13. “Do you know what a habitat is?”
a. Answer: the place where an animal lives, eats, sleeps, makes its home, has
babies, and shares things with other animals. A habitat is an animal’s home.
A habitat matches the animal and the animal matches the habitat.
14. Write definition on the board or display it somewhere students can see.
15. That polar bear doesn’t match the hot, sunny beach, but he feels right at home at
the cold, icy, North Pole because that is the polar bear’s habitat.
16. “What about fish? Would a fish that swims in the ocean do well in the forest?”
17. “Would a worm that crawls through the moist soil of the forest be happy living in a
desert?
18. Have students talk in groups and come up with 3-5 answers to the question “What
are some other habitats that animals and plants live in?”
19. Bring class together and write answers on the whiteboard
a. Forest
b. Desert
c. Jungle/Rainforest
d. Arctic
e. Grasslands/Savanna
f. Ocean
g. Wetlands
h. River
i. Lake
20. Different animals live in different habitats and they also eat different things. Some
animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals, and some animals eat both.
21. There are special names for animals, depending on what they eat.
22. Have students talk in their groups and answer these questions:
a. What is the special name for an animal that eats only plants?
i. Answer: herbivore
b. What is the special name for an animal that eats other animals?
i. Answer: carnivore
c. What is the special name for an animal that eats both?
i. Answer: omnivore
23. Display the answers/vocab & definitions on the whiteboard.
Teacher Assess prior knowledge
Role:
Student Role: Explores resources and materials, records observations and ideas
Explain/Summarize: (10 minutes)
1. Bring students back to their desks and ask some of them to share what they found.
2. “Why don’t the shark and the _______________ live in the same habitat?”
a. Answer: because the shark has gills and needs water to live and the
____________ lives in a ____________ habitat.
3. “Why don’t elephants have thick fur?”
a. Answer: because they live in grasslands/savanna where it is hot.
4. “Why do polar bears eat __________?”
a. Answer: because they are carnivores.
Teacher Asks for evidence and clarification from students, evaluates student
Role: explanations
Name: ______________________
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