This lesson plan aims to teach students about animal habitats. Students will learn the term "habitat" and how forests, deserts, wetlands and grasslands are unique environments. They will identify animals that live in each of these four habitats. The lesson involves discussing habitat characteristics, watching a video on animal homes, drawing pictures of an habitat they would like to visit, and going outside to observe local animals. The lesson addresses language arts, geography and science standards regarding environments and relationships between organisms and their physical surroundings. Technology used includes playing a video on habitats on a computer or TV, and potentially an interactive habitat activity on a SMART board.

1. Animals Around Us
Lesson Plan
Kimberly Carr

2. Objective
Students will
• Learn and understand the term
habitat.
• Discover that forests, deserts,
wetlands, and grasslands are unique
and separate habitats.
• Identify animals that live in four
different environments.

3. Materials
• Video about the animals around us,
and the places that they live.
• Crayons
• White construction paper, 1 sheet per
student
• Magazines, nature calendars and
other resources with photographs of
desert, forest, wetlands, and prairie
environments.

4. Procedures
• 1. Talk about different natural environments with the class. What is
a forest? What does it look like? How is a forest different from a
desert? Explain the term "habitat" and talk about the many kinds of
animals their.
• 2. Continue discussing forests, wetlands, deserts, and grasslands
until students demonstrate a clear understanding of the basic
characteristics of these environments and can identify some animals
that live in each habitat. Once students have a solid understanding,
tell them to draw a picture of the one they would most likely to visit.
Tell them to draw which place they liked most, and what they would
expect to see there, and what it may look like.
• 4. Once the drawings are done, allow the students who want to
share , share why they drew the place they chose, and what they
drew.
• 5. At the end of the lesson, you could take the children outside to
observe the animals that are in your school environment.

5. Standards
• Language Arts-Reading: Uses the general skills and
strategies of the reading process: Understands that
print conveys meaning (i.e., knows that printed letters
and words represent spoken language); and
• Language Arts ? Viewing: Uses viewing skills and
strategies to understand and interpret visual media:
Understands the main idea or message in visual media
(e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television,
newspaper photographs, visual narratives)
• Geography-Physical Systems: Understands the
characteristics of ecosystems on Earth's surface
• Science-Life Science: Understands relationships among
organisms and their physical environment

6. Technology
The technology that would be used
would first be the computer or
television. When watching the movie
about animals habitats, you could
either watch it on the computer or on
a television. Also, you could try to
find an activity for the kids to do on
the SMART board that involved
placing the animals in the right
habitat.