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The Special Species Project
http://www.specialspecies.com/
The Special Species Project
See what happens when teachers, classroom advisors, and K-12 students explore plants, animals and habitats together.
The Special Species Project is looking for partners to help us post kids' nature videos on this site and develop a TV series of all the kids' adventures working with advisors real-time on science, nature, and environmental projects.It's pretty amazing what kids can do with the help of caring adults. Inspirational, heartwarming...plus schools are now sending us awesome videos that kids are making themselves.

Habitats : Lesson Plan at TRE (UK)
http://tinyurl.com/hr7zy
Habitats : Lesson Plan at TRE (UK)
This range of activities is a useful support task that pupils can complete during their work on the QCA SOW on Habitats (4b)
The application consists of a sorting activity, a writing frame to support work on identifying similarities and differences and a minibeast identification activity.

QCA Science Framework : Habitats
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/qca/framework.html
QCA Science Framework : Life Processes and Living Things
Habitats
Click on the units below to find resources within the Naturegrid web site that link to parts of the QCA Science Framework.

Habitats for Educators
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/habitats/educators.html
Habitats for Educators
Welcome to the Geography Action! program and Web site.
You've come to the right place for new resources to enliven your teaching, and heighten your students' interest in the world, as well as introduce them to new ideas, develop their cross-cultural knowledge and skills, and encourage them to address the problems of their community, nation, and world.
Bring Geography Action! into your classroom! To help you with your curriculum development, the National Geographic Education Foundation has provided a suite of lesson plans about habitats, found in each section.
These teacher-tested lesson plans are aligned with the National Geography Standards and are sorted by grade level and habitat type.

Habitats
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/58519/page/0
Since the digital video clips of the BBC series Planet Earth were released via Creative Archive and the BBC website I have been building a resource in Google Earth that maps the location of some of the footage and offers a link to the clips - via Real player. I have just completed the "Habitats" collection which includes links and information about nine major habitats.
I think that the digital footage is exactly the sort of high quality resource that all teachers should be aware of and making the most of in classrooms. For example in the "Mountain" habitat collection is a link to the footage of the snow leopard hunt - never filmed before the BBC series.

Ecology Box at My Science Box
http://www.mysciencebox.org/
Ecology Box at My Science Box
A complete, scaffolded lesson plans to teach a 4-6 week middle school science unit through activities, projects, and field trips.
The Ecology Box covers ecosystems, food webs, habitats, and water/soil quality monitoring. Students will investigate water and soil quality, study habitats ranging from a drop of pond water to a rotten log, and learn about population change through various case studies.
At the core of this unit is a long term project where students build mini-ecosystems with water collected from a local creek, soil from the schoolyard, and seeds.
| Terraqua Columns | Water Analysis | Soil Analysis | Pond Water | Food Chains | Food Webs | Habitat Survey | Ecosystem Organization | Hare and Lynx Populations | Gone Fishing | Sub Plan - Fighting for Foxes | Field Trip - Point Reyes | Project - Ecosystem Plan | Assessment - Rotten Log Lab (with Termites!)

Habitates : BBC Multimedia Science
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/habitats.shtml
Habitates : BBC Multimedia Science

Animals of the Tropical Rainforest
http://www.webquestuk.org.uk/Junior%20Rainforest/rain.htm
Animals of the Tropical Rainforest : A webquest
Rainforests provide us with oxygen, help maintain our climate, and give us essential foods and medicines. Rainforests have intense tropical sunlight, high temperatures, and almost constant rainfall. 7% of the world is covered in rainforest. More than 50% of the world's plant and animal species inhabit rainforest areas. Dozens of animal species become extinct every day.
Dudley Zoo would like to expand their rainforest exhibit and need to learn more about animals who live in the rainforest. Your group will be scientists from Dudley Zoo, and will go to one of the large rainforests in South America, Africa, or Southeast Asia. Pick 5 birds, mammals, amphibians, or insects to learn more.

Animal Habitats
http://www.allabery.com/courses/webquest/lane/
Animal Habitats : A WebQuest for 3rd/4th Grade Science
You have been hired by the local zoo to build a habitat for the new animal they will be acquiring. You need to research what things the animal will need and be ready to present your findings to the Zoo's Board of Directors.

Creative Calendars
http://www.pics4learning.com/lessonplan_details.php?id=l98
Creative Calendars -
Objective - Students will review information they have learned on an animal or habitat by creating a calendar on the computer using animal or wildlife images from Pics4Learning.
After conducting a specific animal or habitat unit, inform the students that they will be creating a calendar as a culminating project. During independent work time, students can select the images (animals, birds, scenery) they would like for their calendar and decide which image will represent the twelve different calendar months.

Habitates at 4learning
http://www.channel4.com/science/index.html
Every plant or animal has an address - its habitat. The habitat provides all that the plant or animal needs. A frog's address - shady pool, the bottom of the garden - provides shelter, food and some safety.

This is the Habitats link area
/pages/learning/ScienceP/Habitats/
Bookmark this page for easier return visits.

Habitats (4b)
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/science/sci4b/?view=get
Through this unit children will begin to understand the concept of a habitat, how it provides organisms found there with conditions for life and how animals depend on plants or other animals which eat plants for food. Throughout the unit ways in which organisms are suited to the habitat should be emphasised.
Experimental and investigative work focuses on:
-turning ideas into a form that can be tested, making a prediction
-making observations
-deciding whether the evidence supports the prediction and suggesting explanations in terms of their knowledge of science.
Work in this unit also provides opportunities for children to learn about the interdependence of living things and how the environment and living things need to be protected.
This unit takes approximately 12 hours.