New Page 2 Ballard's Home Page Ballard Home Page First Graders study Organisms Guppies pill bugs This unit provides hands on experiences that help students develop an understanding of and sensitivity to living things. Students create and maintain a woodland habitat containing pine seedlings, moss, pill bugs, Bess beetles or millipedes. With both plants and animals in each habitat, students have the opportunity to observe how these organisms coexist. We're checking out our guppies We're learning that all animals need air, water and food.
Students learn how plants and animals are similar and different.
I had a hard time finding my pill bug in the soil, they're so tiny. More about Pill Bugs Marine pill bugs are scavengers and browsers, feeding on living and rotting algae and other debris on the sea floor. Most species are less than 10 mm long but some can be twice this length. They can swim but do so upside-down. They are brooders as are all isopods and females of some species develop deep cavities underneath to house the eggs and young.