Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

Animals and Habitats: Supplemental Guide 7A | Animals of the Freshwater Habitat 141

Note: Introducing the Read-Aloud may have activity options that

exceed the time allocated for this part of the lesson. To remain

within the time periods allocated for this portion of the lesson,

you will need to make conscious choices about which activities to

include based on the needs of your students.

Introducing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes

What Have We Already Learned? 10 minutes

Ask students to try to remember and name all of the different

habitats that they have learned about so far, and record their

responses on either the chart paper or whiteboard using the black

marker. If using a chalkboard, choose three different colors of

chalk (one to write the names of the habitats, one to circle the

land habitats, and one to circle the water habitat) to distinguish

among the items. Remind students that they may not be able to

read all of these words by themselves, but you are writing them

down so you don’t forget. Prompt students as necessary until

you have a complete list of all the habitats studied: Arctic tundra,

Arctic Ocean, Sonoran Desert, East African Savanna, temperate

deciduous forest, and tropical rainforest.

Tell students that you are going to review/reread the name of

each habitat, and as you do so, ask them to tell you whether the

habitat is primarily a land habitat or a water habitat. If it is a land

habitat, use the brown marker to circle the name of the habitat; if

it is a water habitat, use the blue marker to circle the name of the

habitat. Call students’ attention to the fact that all of the habitats

discussed so far—with the exception of one—the Arctic Ocean,

have been land habitats. Only the Arctic Ocean is a water habitat.

Where Are We? 5 minutes

Show students the globe, and remind them that the globe shows

both the land and water that make up our planet, Earth. Remind

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