In this Read-Along lesson, Sofia wonders where animals live and goes for a walk in the woods to find out. The lesson includes a short exercise where students pretend to be squirrels and learn about their habitats. You can extend the lesson with the optional activity, Nature Nuggets, where students explore other animal homes.
As an optional activity, we suggest exploring animal homes at the Nature Nuggets site, which offers a combination of videos and activities created by the makers of the documentary film series Nature.
Watch this one-minute video of animals at home and talk with your students about what they noticed. Here are some questions for discussion:
What animals did you see in the video?
Where do the animals live? How do you know?
If the animals could talk, what would you ask them?
Standards
Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
