Habitats

Habitats are all around us. Look around; you’re in a habitat right now! Of course, your home is a habitat, but so is the community in which your home is located.

We’re not here to talk about our own habitat, though! Instead, head out into the world and see wildlife habitats of all shapes and sizes! In 8 family-friendly lessons, you’ll learn:

• how plants and animals interact to keep a beautiful, healthy balance within a habitat
• the things that are necessary for any animal to survive in its habitat
• why predator and prey relationships are important
• how plants and animals find and use shelters
• things that endanger healthy habitats
• and lots more!

Through the engaging multi-media lessons, 1st-8th graders will build a knowledge base that will open their eyes to everything about habitats on future nature walks. They will be able to locate shelters, point out food and water sources for animals, notice whether or not plants are thriving, identify animal behavior, talk about plant and animal relationships, and determine warning signs for an unhealthy habitat.

The lessons are jam-packed with easily doable options for learning. You can easily pick and choose which activities work for your family, but you won’t be overwhelmed by too many choices. Just like habitats maintain a delicate balance, so do the lessons in this curriculum! Whether you choose to simply read the lesson and create the nature journal page or add any of the extra options, your children will know so very much about habitats by the end.

Use the habitat lessons as your science curriculum for part of a semester or as a supplement to what you’re already using during science. The curriculum works nicely during morning time, too! This topic fits in with any study of plants, animals, ecosystems or biomes, or even ecology. 

• 34 pages
• Digital curriculum
• Appropriate for black and white printing
• Printing is not necessary
• Content suitable for charter schools