Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
• Play 'Pin the Living Thing on the Habitat' using small images of familiar creatures and large images of habitats.
• Consider what makes each creature perfectly adapted to their habitat and imagine what would happen if living things wandered into other habitats (lion in the ocean, for example).
• Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things.
• Annotate the dioramas with researched information.

Activities

1. Understand that habitats can be small and local but also very extensive.
2. Understand that creatures are adapted for their own habitats.
3. Research and consider a specific habitat and recreate it in a shoebox diorama.

Investigation - researching and analysing secondary sources
Create shoebox dioramas for plastic animal toys or laminated images of living things.
Annotate the dioramas with researched information.

Vocabulary
Habitat, savannah, rainforest, tundra, microhabitat, features