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Habitat Detectives at the Photo Station

Compare plant and animal variety using a classroom photo investigation, observation records, and a graph.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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1 NGSS standard
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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

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students compare the kinds of plants and animals recorded in two habitats.
Students distinguish the number of living things from the number of kinds.
Students support a habitat comparison with observation records and graph data.

How to use

Read the investigation and records together. Have students use the records and graph to answer, then discuss what photographs can and cannot show.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-LS4-1

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

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Habitat Detectives at the Photo Station

Use classroom observation records to compare two habitats.

At the Classroom Photo Station

Read about the investigation. Use the class records to answer.

Looking for Living Kinds

A habitat is a place where living things make their homes. At a classroom photo station, a class studied pictures of a marsh and an oak woodland. A marsh has shallow water and wet ground. An oak woodland has many oak trees.

Step 1: The teacher gave each group four clear photographs of each habitat. The photographs showed different parts of each place.

Step 2: Each group studied each set for ten minutes. Students used picture guides to name the plants and animals they saw.

Step 3: Students made a list for each habitat. They counted each kind only once, even when it appeared many times. Six ducks appeared in the marsh pictures. Ten ants appeared in the woodland pictures.

Step 4: The class checked the lists and made a graph. The lists tell what students found in the photographs. Living things outside the photographs were not recorded.

Marsh record
Plants: cattail, duckweed, willow, pondweed
Animals: duck, frog, dragonfly, snail

Woodland record
Plants: oak, fern, willow
Animals: squirrel, woodpecker, ant, snail
Each name stands for one kind in these records.

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