At different intervals, the teacher can simulate different conditions such as season, weather, and climate changes. This activity can take as long as the teacher feels necessary and as long as the children are interested and learning. Students should also be reminded that if they are in a classroom, that only walking is permitted. In some cases students in the classroom may have experienced these events. The students can analyze their own habitat based on what they have learned in the activity.
Students can then return to class prepared to share what they have learned about their own survival.
Through this activity the students have learned the importance of habitat, and how if one element of habitat were missing, an organism would need to struggle in order to survive. The teacher will assess the students through informal assessment. In mathematics the students can make graphs that show the number of insects that survive and the number of insects that die. In literature, students may write a story about a particular habitat and how its inhabitants are affected by varying circumstances. In history, students can look at different historical events that have altered habitats permanently.