Every Living Thing Needs a Home

Lab Brief #5

🎯 Your mission

Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.

⚡ The twist

Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.

What you'll learn

A habitat gives an animal food, water, shelter and space. A woodland gives a squirrel nuts to eat and branches to nest in; the same woodland would give a fish nothing at all.

Key words

habitat
The place where a plant or animal lives and finds what it needs.
shelter
A safe place where an animal can rest and hide from danger.

Make a hypothesis first

Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 4 · Read

Think about what you just learned: say what "habitat" and "shelter" mean in your own words before you start.

Step 2 of 4 · Do

Choose one animal and draw its habitat. Label the four things it finds there: food, water, shelter and space. Then label one thing it could not survive without.

Step 3 of 4 · Observe

Record what actually happened, including anything that did not match what you expected.

Step 4 of 4 · Record

Write a conclusion that answers the question this lesson opened with, and state your uncertainty.

Question 1 of 2

Which of these does a habitat provide?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 2

A fish could not live in a woodland because there is no:

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 2 right.

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