Earth Science Projects, Lesson Plans and Experiments

Habitats

We study four habitats at the beginning of second grade. I decorated one window in my room with a fish net strung from one side to another. I had a plastic crab, seahorse and swordfish entangled in the net. I set up shells of all kinds in the ledge. A banner was put in it saying we're going to have an ocean of fun. My other window was the rainforest. I took brown bulletin board paper and twisted it to create vines. I added leaves to it and put it around my window. I had colorful plastic frogs sitting on the ledge. At the top I had a sign "At Home in the Rainforest". Colorful plastic canvas magnets toucans, monkeys, parrots, frogs were put around the window . Books about the ocean and rainforest were displayed in the area of those windows. My bulletin board gave space for the forest and desert. Students work of squirrel nests and owls helped to create the forest. On my table I put material( purchased from Wal-Mart) of colorful fish on a pretty blue background.
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