Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

52 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 3 | Animals of the Sonoran Desert Habitat

Exercise Materials Details

Extensions (20 minutes)

Multiple Meaning Word

Activity: Fan

Poster 2M (Fan)

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Making a List Using the

Conjunction and

Images 3A-7 and 3A-8; Large

display with space for three words,

the conjunction and, separated by

two commas.

, , and

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Herbivore, Carnivore,

Omnivore

Instructional Masters 3B-1 and

3B-2

Habitat Chart Habitat Chart

Habitat Journal: The Desert

Habitat

Instructional Master 3B-3, drawing

tools

Advance Preparation

Bring in additional images of the Sonoran Desert; fi nd an age-

appropriate, short video about the Sonoran Desert to show to the

class.

Create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the Arctic habitat

and the desert habitat, using Instructional Master 3A-1 as a guide.

Students should be able to provide information about the Arctic

habitat. At the end of the lesson, students should be able to

provide information for the desert habitat and for the overlapping

circles.

➶ Above and Beyond: Make a copy of Instructional Master 3A-1

for students who are ready to fi ll in this diagram on their own.

For the Syntactic Awareness Activity, create a large display

with space for three words, separated by two commas and the

conjunction and. The display should look like the following:

, , and

Make copies of Instructional Masters 3B-1 and 3B-2 for each

student. They will use these worksheets for the Vocabulary

Instructional Activity.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 3B-3 for each student. This

will be the desert habitat page in their Habitat Journals.