Like creatures in an ecosystem, every person's hand is unique. Ask your students to make outlines of their hands. Have them decorate the outlines in ways that illustrate habitat diversity. The palm of the hand can be decorated in any way you choose, perhaps with a drawing of a favorite habitat near your school.
Students can write their names across the wrists.
Invite others to Give Habitats a Hand, including parents, staff, school board members, superintendents, mayors, legislators, park rangers, local conservationists and reporters. You and your students can make the hands into a bulletin board or a classroom door display. You could arrange them in a chain around the school. If you and your class decide to Give Habitats a Hand, the Geography Education Program and National Geographic Online would love to know about it. Send us a note from your class describing a habitat near you, or a picture of a display that your class made to celebrate habitats.