Have them think about what kind of shelter the animal needs, what kind of habitat they need, and where they get their food. Have students write out their ad or type it neatly. Paste all the ads, in the style of a classified ad page, onto a large piece of posterboard and write the Activiy title at the top of the posterboard. Have students try to match each habitat ad with the animal it represents. You can have the students work in groups.
Some animals can live nearly anywhere.
Cockroaches and mice are good examples. Most wild animals, however, are very specialized and have adapted to a certain kind of wild habitat. They are not comfortable if there are too many of them living in one place. They have adapted to their surroundings over many hundreds or thousands of years. Some woodland animals may prefer recently burned logs, while others can only flourish in stable mature forests.