Gr. 1 Lesson 2-The Everglades-Florida's Treasure

This is lesson 2 in a series of 3 lessons. All living things need food, water, shelter and space to survive. This lesson focuses on some of the plants and animals that call the Everglades home. Students will be introduced to the relationships between the wildlife and plants that live in different habitats of the Everglades. Several Everglades habitats are introduced. Students will sort cards of plants and animals that live in each habitat.

This PowerPoint introduces the class to several different Everglades habitats and animals of the Everglades while activity engaging students in identifying the animal. The slides have one slide with just a picture of the animal/plant followed by a slide with the name of the animal/plant so that the students can participate by trying to guess the name of the animal/plant. You might want to ask them what they observe about each animal/plant before describing it for them. Ask students if they think the animal lives in a wet or dry habitat. Guide them to infer from the picture - could the animal swim? Does it have long legs that it could use to could stand in or walk through water? What kind of food do they think the animal would eat? What kind of habitat would they find that food (wet or dry?)

These habitat and animal treasure cards will be used in each set of students. 

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