Exploring Habitats
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Objective
I can describe different types of habitats and the plants and animals that live there.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
A habitat is a place where an animal lives and finds what it needs to survive.
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Animals need food, water, shelter, and space in their habitat.
- 3
A food web shows how plants and animals are connected because they eat each other.
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Practice
5 questions
Animals need food, water, shelter, and space in their habitat to survive. True or False?
What is a food web?
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Exit ticket
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“Name one animal that lives in the forest and what it eats.”
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