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Habitat Plans for the Outdoor Kitchen

Compare plants and animals beside an outdoor kitchen, read graphs of living kinds, and judge building plans using habitat observations.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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13 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare the kinds of plants and animals observed in two habitats.
Students distinguish the number of living kinds from the number of individual living things.
Students use habitat observations to judge outdoor kitchen building plans.

How to use

Read the habitat records together, then have students compare the graphs. Discuss how the records can help builders choose which habitat patches to keep.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-LS4-1

Compare the variety of plants and animals living in different habitats.

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Habitat Plans for the Outdoor Kitchen

Compare living things before choosing a building plan.

Two Places Beside the Kitchen

Read the class records. Use only the living things listed when you compare the two places.

Look Before Building

A community center has an outdoor kitchen where neighbors prepare picnic meals. Builders want to add a serving counter. Beside the kitchen are two habitats: a grass patch and a berry hedge. A habitat is a place where living things make their home. Before choosing a plan, the builders ask a class to observe both places.

With an adult, the class watches equal-sized areas for the same amount of time on one morning. Students look without picking plants or touching animals. They record each kind they see. Ten ants count as one animal kind, not ten kinds. Their records may not include every living thing in either place.

Grass patch plants: grass, clover. Grass patch animals: ant, grasshopper.

Berry hedge plants: blackberry bush, clover, violet, fern. Berry hedge animals: ant, bee, beetle, robin, snail.

Which plant kind was recorded in both habitats?