Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

92 Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 5 | Animals of the Temperate Deciduous Forest Habitat

Exercise Materials Details

Word Work: Climate Image 5A-3 (Forest);

Image 2A-2 (Arctic);

Image 3A-3 (Desert);

Image 4A-2 (Savanna);

picture of a local park or school

Show these images as students talk

about the climate of each habitat.

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions (20 minutes)

Multiple Meaning Word

Activity: Bark

Poster 3M (Bark)

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Conjunction or

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Hibernate

images of hibernators (e.g., brown

bears, bats, squirrels, groundhogs,

etc.)

Habitat Chart Habitat Chart

Habitat Journal: The Forest

Habitat

Instructional Master 5B-1, drawing

tools

Habitat Review Image Cards 1–15; Habitat Posters

1–4; Rattenborough cutout

Invite students to put their Rattenborough

cutout on the correct Habitat Poster.

Advance Preparation

Bring in additional images of a deciduous forest habitat and

animals of the deciduous forest; images showing the four seasons;

picture of a local park or school; and images of hibernators (e.g.,

brown bears, bats, squirrels, groundhogs, raccoons, skunks, frogs,

turtles, lizards, snakes, snail, fi sh, shrimp, etc.).

Find an age-appropriate short video about the deciduous forest

habitat to show to the class.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5B-1 for each student. This

will be the forest habitat page in their Habitat Journal.