Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Explore microhabitats in the school grounds, making and recording observations.
• Understand that most of the living things they observed live in those microhabitats because they are suited to them.
• Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants and try and answer these questions: What microhabitat is best for moss to grow? What living things can be found in muddy microhabitats? Which microhabitats had the biggest variety of living things?

Activities

1. Observe microhabitats and their inhabitants and understand why they live there.
2. Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of living things.
3. Understand that there are a varied amount of microhabitats with different features and conditions.

Investigation - exploring over time
Photograph or draw the micro-habitats in the school grounds, adding five adjectives to describe them (damp/wet/dry, dark/light).

Vocabulary
Microhabitat, damp/wet/dry, dark/light, features