Grade 1 - Animals and Habitats

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

 Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Explain why living things live in habitats to which they are

particularly suited

 Classify animals on the basis of they types of food they eat

(herbivore, carnivore, omnivore)

 Identify the characteristics of the grassland habitat

 Explain how grassland animals have adapted to the grassland

habitat

 Match specifi c plants and animals to their habitats

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this

lesson. Objectives aligning with the Common Core State

Standards are noted with the corresponding standard in

parentheses. Refer to the Alignment Chart for additional standards

addressed in all lessons in this domain.

Students will:

 Describe an illustration of the African savanna habitat and use

pictures and detail in “Animals of the East African Savanna

Habitat” to describe the read-aloud’s key ideas (RI.1.7)

 Compare and contrast the savanna with the desert and Arctic

habitats (RI.1.9)

 With assistance, categorize and organize information about the

Arctic and Sonoran habitats and the animals that live in those

habitats (W.1.8)

 Describe the East African Savanna habitat with relevant details,

expressing ideas and feelings clearly (SL.1.4)

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