This activity describes the Georgia Habitats and then gives direction for an animal project..

4. Key Question:
What can you learn about your selected Georgia
animal?
How to get started:
In your groups review the habitats of Georgia
(mountains, Piedmonts, costal plains,
swamps/marshes, barrier islands/oceans) and
examine the pictures of the animals that live in
those habitats.

5. Each student has been given an animal to
research and to become an expert on that
particular animal.
You are to learn all about our animal including
where it lives (region), what it eats, what
features it has to help it survive, etc.
Please keep a record in your journal of all the
resources used to get your information in your
science journal.

6. Habitat
Life
Appearance
Features
Important Facts

7. Please be prepared to discuss the following
questions. Use thinking maps to compare and
contrast the habitats and the animals.
How do the habitats differ (compare and
contrast).
How is your animal like some of the other
animals you have heard about? How is it
different?
Which of these animals described do you find
the most interesting?
What are you wondering now?