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Sample Learning Experiences

SAMPLE ONE:

Students will name and describe the types of habitats and the animals that live in each one.

Students will list the four types of habitats, write two or more sentences to describe them, and name three animals from each one.

SAMPLE TWO:

Students will describe different categories of African animals.

1.Teacher and students will discuss and hypothesize what animals eat in each habitat.  Teacher will define four types of African animals: grazers, browsers, herbavores, carnivores.

Assessment:

Students will categorize pictures of given animals into their four appropriate groups on a large velcro graph and count how many belong in each group.

 

2.Habitat Murals Cooperative learning groups will choose one of the four habitats to create.  Students will use materials and make animals that belong in that habitat.

Assessment:

Students will demonstrate what they learned about habitats and the inhabitants by creating a mural of one of the four habitats.

SAMPLE THREE:

Students will describe animal adaptation within their habitat.

1.Students will learn about defense characteristics of specific animals, such as a zebra's ability to camouflage or a cheetah's fast speed.  Students will create a "defense" scene with an animal of their choice.  They are to display the animal in it's own habitat protecting itself (adapting) from danger.

1. Zoobooks magazine.  Wildlife Education, Ltd.

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San Diego, CA 92131

2.Field trip to the zoo.

3.Field trip to a museum with African exhibit.