HabitatHabitatHarry Padilla Lópezmarzo – mayo 2008

TEDU 220Prof. Nancy Rodríguez

Index

• Biography

• Introduction

• Objectives

• Habitat definition

• Forest Habitat

• Wetland Habitat

• Ocean Habitat

• Desert Habitat

• Videos

• Practice Exercises

• Games

• References

My name is Harry Padilla, I’m first grade teacher at Lurgrea Central College in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. This is my first experience as a teacher and it’s been a wonderful one. I hope you enjoy this module about habitat as much as I have enjoyed preparing it.

Have fun !!!!!!!!!

Introduction

In this module you will discover how habitats are a like and different and how the needs of plants and animals are met in their habitat.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson the student will be able to:

• Identify the different kinds of living things that live in a variety of environments.

• Recognize many different plants and animals.• associated with their environment by and examination of their

structural characteristics.• Understand that the most natural events occur in patterns.

What is a habitat?

Definition

A habitat is a place where plants and animals live.

Definition

A habitat has food, water and air for the animals and plants.

Definition

A habitat gives shelter for plants and animals.

What is a forest habitat?

A forest is a habitat. A forest has many trees and other plants.

Click the picture for more information about forest plants.

El Yunque is a national rain Forest in Puerto Rico

Look at the Yunque forest in Puerto Rico.

Click the picture for more information.

Forest habitat in the summer

Look at the forest in the summer.

• Animals get the food and water they need.

• Plants get the sunlight and water they need.

Look at the deer in the summer at forest habitat.

Forest habitat in the winter

Look at the forest in the winter.

• Plants get less sunlight.

• Many trees lose their leaves.

• It is harder for some animals to find food.

Look at the deer in the winter at the summer habitat.

Raccoon lives in the forest.

Black bears live in the forest.

One adventure in the forest habitat

Click the picture.

What is a wetland habitat?

A wetland habitat is covered with water.

Click the picture for more information about wetland habitat.

A wetland habitat has food and water for animal

Look at this picture of a wetland.

Plants in this wetland get sunlight and this animals lives there.

This wetland gets lots of rain in the summer.

This wetland gets less rain in the winter.

The winter is cooler than the summer.

A wetland has shelter for animal.

One adventure in a wetland One adventure in a wetland habitat.habitat.

Click the picture.

What is an ocean habitat?

The ocean is an habitat. The ocean has salt water.

Click the picture for more information about ocean habitat.

An ocean habitat is large and deep.

Many plants and animals live in the ocean habitat. Plants and animals get everything they need to live in the ocean habitat.

Which are the kind of animal that lives in the ocean habitat?

The whale is the kind of animal that lives in the ocean habitat.

What do you think the sea fish gets in an ocean habitat?

The sea fish gets food, water and shelter.

These animals live in the ocean habitat.

One adventure under the sea

Click the picture

What is a desert habitat?

A desert is very dry. It gets lost of sun light, and gets very little rain. Many deserts are hot during the day.

Click the picture for more information about the desert habitat.

Animals and plants that lives in the desert habitat.

Many animals and plants live in the desert. The camel can live without water for a long time.

The cactus in the desert habitat

The cactus can store water in its stems.

What is the largest desert in the world?

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world.

One adventure in the desert

Click the picture.

Practice Exercises

What do you call a place where plants and animals live?

• space

• habitat

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because the space is the region beyond the earth’s atmosphere.

Correct

You are correct because the habitat is the place where plants and animals lives there.

What animal lives in the forest habitat?

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because the sea turtle do not lives in the forest habitat. Remember the sea turtle lives in the ocean habitat.

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because the camel do not lives in the forest habitat. The camel lives in the desert habitat.

Correct

Your answer are correct because the raccoon lives in the forest habitat.

Which picture represent a forest habitat?

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because this picture do not represent a forest habitat. This picture represent a ocean habitat.

Correct

Your answer are correct because this picture represent a forest habitat. A forest habitat has many trees and other plants lives there.

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because this picture do not represent a forest habitat. This picture represent a desert habitat.

What habitat is covered with water?

• desert

• forest

• wetland

Incorrect

Your answer is incorrect because the desert habitat gets very little rain and is very dry.

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because a forest habitat has many trees and other plants. The 90% of them are covered with trees, rocks and sand.

Correct

Your answer is correct because the wetland is a habitat covered with water.

An animal that lives in the desert habitat is a ___________.

• whale

• dragon fly

• camel

Incorrect

This answer is incorrect because the whale lives in the ocean habitat.

Incorrect

This answer is incorrect because the dragon fly lives in the wetland habitat.

Correct

This answer is correct because the camel is an animal that lives in the desert habitat.

An ocean habitat is a habitat that has lots of water.

• True

• Not True

Correct

Your answer is correct because the ocean habitat is a habitat that has a lot of water. This habitat is very large and deep and many plants and animals lives there.

Incorrect

Your answer is incorrect because it is True. The ocean habitat is a habitat that has lots of water.

Only animals can live in the ocean habitat?

• True

• Not True

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because many plants and animals lives in an ocean habitat and they get everything they need to lives in this habitat.

Correct

GREAT ANSWER

Your right !!!!!!!!! Many plants and animals lives in an ocean habitat. Plants and animals live together in an ocean habitat and they get everything they need to live in their habitat.

In which habitat the whale lives?

• desert

• ocean

• wetland

Incorrect

This answer is incorrect because whales do not live in the desert habitat. Remember, the camel lives in the desert habitat.

Correct

This answer is correct, whales live in the ocean habitat.

Incorrect

Sorry!!!!!!!! This answer is incorrect because whales don’t live in the wetland habitat. Remember, the dragon fly, the crane, and the bullfrog lives in the wetland habitat.

The kind animal that lives in the ocean habitat is the _________.

• Whale

• Sea turtle

• dolphins

Correct

GREAT !!!!!!!! Your answer is correct. The whale is the kind animal that lives in the ocean habitat.

Incorrect

Your answer is incorrect because the sea turtle is an animal of the ocean habitat but is not the kind animal.

Incorrect

Sorry !!!!!!!!!! Your answer is incorrect because the dolphins are animals in the ocean habitat but is not the kind of animal.

Which picture represent a desert habitat?

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because this is an ocean habitat. Remember the ocean habitat has salt water and is large and deep.

Incorrect

That answer is incorrect because this is a forest habitat. Remember the forest habitat has water and shelter for other animals.

Correct

GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The desert is the correct answer because is very dry and gets lots of sunlight and are hot during the day.

Let’s have fun !!!!!!!

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Congratulations you have finish this module.

Reference

http://www.hamiltonnature.org/habitats/forest/forest_plants.htm

http://www.elyunque.com/about.html

http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/habitat/wetlands.php

http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/habitat/marine.php

www.youtube.com

www.google.com

http://www.thekidzpage.com/onlinejigsawpuzzles/fishies.html

http://www.gamequarium.com/ocean.html

http://www.prongo.com/fish/index.html

www.scottforesman.com

Scott Foresman Science (2006) components for Grade 1.

Scott Foresman ScienceTeacher’s Edition (2006) components for Grade 1.