Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 4B | Animals of the East African Savanna Habitat 85

Arctic Desert Savanna Forest Rainforest

Climate

cold and

windy

hot and dry warm, rainy

summer; dry

winter

Water a lot of water and salt water not much rain rain in the summer

Ground frozen, covered in ice sand grass

Plants grasses, mosses cacti grasses, acacia trees

Animals

muskox,

wolverine,

caribou, Arctic

fox, Arctic

hare, walrus,

seal, polar

bear

Gila

woodpecker,

elf owl, desert

cottontail,

coyotes

zebra,

giraffe,

elephant,

oxpecker,

lion, vulture

Habitat Journal: The Savanna Habitat

(Instructional Master 4B-4) 20 minutes

• Tell students that they will make another page for their Habitat
  Journal. Today they will draw a savanna habitat. [You may wish
  to review Flip Book images and additional images related to the
  savanna habitat before having students begin this activity.]


• Give each student Instructional Master 4B-4. Discuss what
  they have learned about the savanna habitat. To help students
  brainstorm ideas for their drawing, you may wish to ask
  questions such as the following:

1. What kind of plants will be in your drawing? Will there be a lot
   of grass?


2. Will there be a special kind of tree?


3. What kinds of animals will be in your drawing?

• After students have fi nished their drawings, ask them to write
  one sentence to describe their drawings of a savanna habitat,
  using their sound/letter knowledge to sound out and write their
  sentences.