Habitats

Ages 6 to 8 Read together, then try alone · about 20 minutes

Read together

A habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives. It gives food, water and shelter.

A fish lives in water. A camel lives in the desert.

Do it

1. Choose a small place outside: a patch of grass, a tree trunk or a pond edge.
2. Look quietly for 10 minutes. Write or draw every living thing you see.
3. Say what each one needs from its habitat.
4. Leave everything as you found it.

Talk about it

• What does this animal need?
• What would happen if the habitat changed?

For the grown-up

Habitats link living things to their surroundings. Look, don't touch, keep to safe ground, and wash hands afterwards.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

• NGSS Lead States, Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States (National Academies Press, 2013), performance expectation 2-LS4-1 (diversity of living things in habitats)
• Smithsonian Institution, educational pages on habitats and ecosystems

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.