The document introduces second grade students to local water life and habitats in the Mississippi River through a PowerPoint presentation, which aims to teach students to verbally and visually identify five examples of local water animals and their river habitat. It provides definitions of habitat and river, lists common river animals and components of the river habitat, and concludes with a summary of the lesson and a teaser about discussing water conservation in the upcoming community project.

1. Water Animals of the
Mississippi
Mrs. Rubie Jones

2. Science
Grade 2
Summary: The purpose of this instructional
PowerPoint is to introduce local water life as well as
the water habitat to second grade students.
Students will verbally identify local water life and the
habitat that the water life is in when asked to draw
five examples of local water life 100% of the time.
GLE 0207.2.1 Investigate the habitats of different
kinds of local plants and animals.
Assessment 0207.2.1 Draw or use pictures of a local
environment to label the plants and animals.

3. Has anybody been to any lakes
around here or perhaps to the
Mississippi River?

4. What did you see?

5. Take 5 Minutes and Share What You
Saw, Did, Experienced!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_deta
ilpage&v=1Fxfl0p5lsU

6. Definitions
Habitat- a home for plants, animals, and people.
River- A large natural stream of water flowing in a
channel to the sea, a lake, or another stream.

7. Habitat
Water
Mud

8. Grass
Air
Trees

9. Come and Paint

10. Animals
Fish
Bugs
Birds

11. Frogs
Bears
People

12. If you could ask one more question,
what would it be?
Take your blank sheets of paper and draw the type of
habitat that we learned about and include five
animals that live there.
After I have seen them, you may go and paint ONE
river animal on our mural, clean up, and read until we
are through.

13. Summary
We have just learned what a river habitat looks like, as
well as what types of animals we can expect to find
there. We have also talked about other things, such as
why animals and humans need water habitats. We will
talk and learn about conserving our river habitat next
week when we start this month’s community project
on water conservation.