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The Earth and Its Habitats Lesson

Curriculum Outcomes:

You and Your World 1.2.5 Students will be expected to describe how people depend
upon and interact with different natural environments.
Visual Arts - GCO 1: Students will be expected to create, independently or
collaboratively, a variety of artworks.

Objectives:

Students will begin by examining the earth and what it looks like. They will then dive into
different habitats found on the earth and what inhabits them.

Resources/Materials

Habitat pictures (desert, rain forest, jungle, ocean etc.)


Printed out animals
Google maps
Paper Mache paste
Scrap paper
Paint brushes
Balloons
Green and blue paint
Card board

Pre-Lesson: **This part of the lesson should happen a day or more before**

Have the students paper Mache around inflated balloons and leave them aside to dry for the next
day

Introduction:

Open the image of the earth on google maps on the smart board. Use the smart board to move the
globe around and point out the amounts of water compared to land. Emphasize that there is 70%
water and only 10% is drinkable. To make this concrete for the students choose 10 helpers to
stand at the front. Place blue labels (representing water) on 7 of the students and green labels
(representing land) on the other three. Make sure they stand apart so they can visualize how
much more water there is. To show how little we can drink, take away one blue labeled student
and have them stand on their own.
Activity 1:

Have the students return to their desks and pass out their paper Mache, and painting material.
Have them paint their globes and make sure to keep emphasizing that there will be much more
blue paint then green paint. Leave the globes to dry once they are done.

Discussion:

Gather the students and begin with making a list of different habitats they have heard of. Then go
onto ask them what animals they think live in each listed habitat. If the list is not very long,
suggest ideas to help spark the students ideas.

Activity 2:

Separate the students into groups and give them each a set of habitat images. Explain to them
that they must match each animal they will receive with its correct habitat. Once they have
finished matching, go through each habitat and give the groups chances to share their answers. If
students made incorrect matches explore as a class why that may not be a good environment for
that animal.

Assessment:

Assessment will be based upon their paper Mache globes, and if they are able to discuss different
habitats and animals that belong in each.

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