Engage: Students will complete a matching worksheet. One column holds pictures of different habitats. The other column would be the name of the habitats. The students must draw a line from one habitat to the next. Explore: Students will complete their summative assessment. The teacher will provide magazines with multiple animals, habitats, and plant species. The students will individually choose one habitat they will create in a collage. They will be asked to incoperate ten pictures that describe the different needs in order to survive in that habitat for each of the species. Teacher will provide a model example of the collage. For example, an ocean collage will involve pictures of salt water, fish, sharks, gills, coral reefs, sand, currents, anemone, underwater volcanoes, and caves. …show more content…
In their explanation, they will define why their picutres are important to the survival of the habitat and the species in it. Once they have discussed in groups, they will bring up their top three examples to share with the class. For the ocean example, the students would explain how the coral reefs act as protection and home for the different animal species in this habitat from their predators. Duirng the direct instruction, the teacher will play clips from different Disney Movies. After they are played, the teacher will ask for a further explanation. For example, the teacher will use the Disney Movie, Finding Nemo, in which the students will analyze the importance of the anemone for the Clown Fish. The teacher will ask the students why they think the anemone allowed the Clown Fish in and not the