The students will also observe wildlife, search for the foods, homes, and signs of animals, and make plaster casts of animal tracks they find. Students doing the deer population study will assist in a restoration project to improve wildlife habitat, while those doing the butterfly population study will design and plant a butterfly garden. The restoration activities help the students feel stewardship of their watershed and give them an understanding of what they can do to improve wildlife habitat. Understanding of concepts covered up to this point are assessed through Lesson 13, Survival of the Fittest . Students make a clay model of an animal living in the adopted watershed and re-create the animal's habitat in a diorama.
Students write about how their animal uses adaptations to survive.
Living things have characteristics and structures which enable them to live and interact in different environments. There is great diversity of animal life. There are many shapes, sizes, and colors of animals. Animals live in many different places. Animals eat many types of food.