This unit plan aims to teach a class of 19 second grade students about wildlife in different regions of the world. Over the course of a week, students will be split into groups and research different continents, creating a poster with pictures and facts about animals found there. Each day will focus on a different continent or group of continents, and lessons will include videos, pictures, guided online research, books, and magazines. The goal is for students to recognize and describe different types of animals based on their habitats and locations worldwide.

1. Unit Plan
Wildlife of the Different
Regions of the World
-Melissa Frye

2. The Learners
 My class is a group of 19 second graders: 9
boys and 10 girls. 3 children are African
American, and 2 children are Latino.

3. Main Objective
 My students will recognize and describe different types of wild life
found in the different regions of the world. They will locate the
continents or countries on a globe and tell me what animals live
where and give small details about their habitats such as weather
they endure and the food the animals eat. The students will
participate in small groups and create a poster board of a continent
or country I give them. They are to provide on the poster pictures
they find and small facts. Students will do this with the help of my
lecturing, using guided research online, and science
magazines/books found in the library. This lesson will last a week,
and students will have a 100% success rate.

4. Day by Day….
 Day 1: The Americas (North, South, Central)
(Students will be given their group continent also this day)
 Day 2: Africa
 Day 3: Antarctica & Australia
 Day 4: Asia & Europe
 Day 5: Review and discussions, poster
presentations.

5. Use of Technology
 As a class, we will watch and discuss videos and
pictures I find of animals in their habitats. We will use
this technology to help give a visual of what the
environments are like in each continent.
 The students will have guided internet research time to
read about their continent and the wildlife residing there.

6. Works Cited
 Animals.nationalgeographic.com
 Enchantedlearning.com
 AnimalPlanet.com

7. Works Cited
 Animals.nationalgeographic.com
 Enchantedlearning.com
 AnimalPlanet.com