HabitatsGrade 4

Related Standards:• ELA1.04.RE1.01 Students acquire information by locating and using library media resources,

with some assistance. 

• ELA1.04.RE1.02 Students collect and interpret data, facts, and ideas from unfamiliar texts. 

• ELA1.04.RE1.03 Students understand written directions and procedures. 

• ELA1.04.WR2.01 Students take notes to record data, facts, and ideas both by following teacher direction and by writing independently. 

• ELA1.04.WR2.05 Students produce clear, well-organized, and well-developed explanations, reports, accounts, and directions that demonstrate understanding of a topic. 

• ELA1.04.WR2.09 Students write labels and captions for graphics to convey information, with assistance. 

• MST5.E.CT3B Students use the computer as a tool for generating and drawing ideas.

The Animal Kingdom

• There are many different types of animals in the world.

• Many animals are quite similar to each other. • Others are quite different. • Animals can be classified based on their

similarities. • Continue on, and learn more about your fellow

Earth inhabitants.

Invertebrates• Animals without a

backbone or spine• For example, insects,

arachnids (spiders), crustaceans (crabs), arthropods (grasshopper), mollusks (octopus), annelids (earthworms), echinoderms (starfish) and protozoa

Vertebrates

• Animals with a backbone or spinal column

• For example, fish, amphibians (frogs), reptiles, birds, mammals, marsupials (kangaroos), primates (monkeys), rodents, cetaceans (whales)

Bibliography

• http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html

• http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/Animals/Animals.htm