Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

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

Arctic Desert Savanna Forest Rainforest

Climate

cold and

windy

hot and dry

Water

a lot of water

and salt water

not much

rain

Ground

frozen,

covered in ice

sand

Plants grasses,

mosses

cacti

Animals

muskox,

wolverine,

caribou, Arctic

fox, Arctic

hare, walrus,

seal, polar

bear

Gila

woodpecker,

elf owl,

desert

cottontail,

coyotes

Habitat Journal: The Desert Habitat

(Instructional Master 3B-3) 20 minutes

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


• Give each student Instructional Master 3B-3. Discuss what
  they have learned about the desert habitat. To help students
  brainstorm ideas for their drawings, you may wish to ask
  questions such as the following:

1. What kind of plant will be in your drawing? Will there be many
   plants or just a few plants?


2. What kind of animals will be in your drawing? What color fur
   will some of them have?


3. Will there be water in your drawing?

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