Literacy Links
Habitats Science Unit
Crinkleroot’s Guide To Knowing Animal Habitats
Arnosky, Jim
©2000
All Kinds of Habitats
Hewitt, Sally
©1999
Animals in Camouflage
Tildes, Phyllis Limbacher
©2000
Backyard
Silver, Donald
©1997
Backyard Detective : Critters Up Close
Bishop, Nic
©2002
Box Turtle at Long Pond
George, William T.
©1989
Bugs are Insects
Rockwell, Anne
©2001
City Park
Davis, Wendy
©1997
Dead Log Alive
Kittinger, Jo S.
©1996
Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers
Jenkins, Priscilla Belz
©1996
Habitats
Riley, Peter D.
©2004
I See a Kookaburra! : Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World
Jenkins, Steve
©2005
Pets in a Jar
Simon, Seymour
©1979
Sand, Leaf, or Coral Reef : A Book About Animal Habitats
Stockland, Patricia
©2005
Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs and Other Ughs
Fredericks, Anthony D.
©2001
What Color is Camouflage?
By Carolyn Otto
©1996
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs
Lauber, Patricia
©1995
Video Resources
from Unitedstreaming.com
Video
All About Animals: Insects
12 min.
Amphibians, Fish, and Reptiles
26 min.
Animal Adaptations
24 min.
Animal Features & Their Functions
13 min.
Animals around Us
21 min.
Concepts in Nature: Where
Animals Live
14 min.
Desert Habitats
21 min.
Forest Habitats
15 min.
Description (from Unitedstreaming.com)
The fascinating characteristics of insects are revealed through song,
artwork, and exciting nature photography. The basic concepts, such as
body parts of insects, habitats, and they way they move, are all included.
Also included is how some insects are helpful, such as a bee, and others
are pests, such as a mosquito.
Go underwater to discover where over 20,000 different kinds of fish live.
Visit the habitats of frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and more. Learn how to
distinguish between these three types of animals with this informative and
interesting lesson.
Welcome to Camp Wilderness! Join Counselor Tom and the campers of
Team Five as they travel through the animal kingdom and learn about the
adaptations animals have make in order to live and prosper. Covers both
the physical and behavioral adaptations of animals in regard to getting
food, water, oxygen, protection from predators, shelter, and reproduction.
Students will learn just how important adaptation is in the survival of all
animal species.
Head, tail, wings, feathers, fur, and claws. Discover how these and other
parts of animals help them live in different habitats. Learn how to tell what
kind of food an animal eats based on the shape of its teeth.
Take students on a wildlife tour of the diverse animals and habitats found
in the United States. The video, which showcases animals in their
environments, provides a great way to help students go beyond their own
geographic experience.
Like people, animals need shelter, one of the three basics of life. Shelters
provide places to sleep, to feel safe, to stay out of bad weather and to care
for young. Animals use an array of shelters, ranging from burrows and
caves to lodges and nests. Many factors affect shelter selection, including
the user's physical design and lifestyle. Viewers will learn about
ecosystems, habitats and niches while seeing incredible wildlife footage.
Take a video field trip to some of the driest regions on Earth to learn how
different plants and animals adapt to little rainfall and extremes in
temperature. Discover how different animals find food, water, and shelter.
See the characteristics that allow desert life to thrive. Discover how rainfall
and differences in temperature between day and night affect life in the
desert.
Visit deciduous and evergreen forests to see the plants and animals that
make this ecosystem their home. Discover how living things change over
time and adapt to their surroundings.
Habitats: Homes for Living Things
15 min.
Ocean Habitats: Shoreline & Reef
16 min.
Tropical Rainforest Habitat, The
15 min.
Peek into the habitats of different kinds of animals to see how they meet
their needs. Visit a pond, a desert, a forest, a rainforest, and other habitats
to discover how different animals and plants survive and thrive in these
unique environments.
Discover the unique environment where the water meets the land that
includes rocky and sandy shores, as well as tide pools, home to crabs,
barnacles, and starfish. Demonstrates how tides and waves affect the
other species that live on, in, and out of the water. Students discover the
amazing living habitat of the reef.
Peek inside the wettest habitat on land to learn about the special
adaptations plants and animals make to ensure survival, including
symbiosis. Take students through three layers of the rainforest to
understand the importance of the rainforest to living things. See that much
of the rainforest continues to be destroyed and discover the efforts taken
to protect the rainforest for future generations.
*Video images from unitedstreaming.com
Online Resources
Habitats Science Unit
This site contains links to
several animal and habitat
activities.
Build a Prairie: See if you have
what it takes to build and
maintain a prairie habitat.
Learn how to create a backyard
habitat and other ways to be
earth-friendly- in kid terms!
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/junior/living-things/animalhabitats
http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie/index.html
http://greenguideforkids.blogspot.com/2007/08/createbackyard-habitat.html
http://www.kidsplanet.org/
Kids (and teachers) can learn
about wildlife, play games, and
learn about the web of life.
*Website images taken from listed websites.