🔬 ScienceGrade 2Lesson 6
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Explore Local Habitats

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Learning Objectives

  • 1Describe three local habitats — forest, pond, and grassland
  • 2Match animals to the habitat that meets their needs
  • 3Name what every habitat provides — food, water, and shelter
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Mini Lesson

Every animal has a favorite place to live — a place that gives it exactly what it needs to survive. That place is called its habitat.

Forest habitat

  • Forests are full of tall trees, shade, and fallen leaves.
  • They offer food like berries, nuts, and insects, plus shelter in tree hollows and undergrowth.
  • Animals: deer, owl, fox, woodpecker, squirrel, bear.

Pond habitat

  • Ponds are small, still bodies of fresh water with plants growing in and around them.
  • They provide water, water plants to eat, and muddy banks for shelter.
  • Animals: frog, duck, dragonfly, water snail, fish, heron.

Grassland habitat

  • Grasslands are wide, open areas covered in grass with few trees.
  • They offer plenty of grass to eat and space for running away from predators.
  • Animals: rabbit, hawk, mouse, butterfly, grasshopper, snake.
Three habitat scenesThree side-by-side panels showing a forest with trees, a pond with water and lily pads, and a grassland with open sky and grass.Three HabitatsForestdeer - owlfox - squirrelPondfrog - duckfish - heronGrasslandrabbit - hawkmouse - snake
Forest (owl in trees), pond (frog on lily pad), and grassland (rabbit in grass).
What a habitat providesThree cards showing that every habitat provides food, shelter, and water for the animals that live there.Every habitat provides...FoodPlants,insects,or otheranimalsShelterTrees,mud banks,grass, orburrowsWaterStreams,ponds,dew onplants
Every habitat provides three things animals need — food, shelter, and water.
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Ask yourself: What food, water, and shelter does this habitat provide? Which animals would thrive here?

Vocabulary
Habitat
The natural place where an animal lives and finds everything it needse.g. a forest, a pond, a grassland
Shelter
A safe place that protects an animal from weather and predatorse.g. tree hollow, burrow, mud bank
Predator
An animal that hunts and eats other animalse.g. hawk, fox, owl
Environment
Everything around a living thing — land, water, air, plants, and animalse.g. a pond environment has water and reeds
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