1. Learning about Habitats By Wanda McRae-Jones
Georgia Habitats
Learning about Habitats
By Wanda McRae-Jones

2. Georgia Performance Standards
S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat.
ELAGSE3RL2: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
ELAGSE3RL5: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
ELAGSE3RI2: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

3. Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia?
ENGAGE
Misconception
Let’s learn about the different habitats?
Can all animals and plants live in any part of Georgia?

4. Complete Frayer Model of vocabulary words from the unit and books.
EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN
Complete Frayer Model of vocabulary words from the unit and books.

5. Complete Frayer Model of vocabulary words from the unit and books.
EXPLORE AND EXPLAIN
Complete Frayer Model of vocabulary words from the unit and books.

6. Differentiated Activities
Individual
Students will write a five paragraph report on the piedmont, mountains, swamp/marsh, coastal plain, and Atlantic Ocean. Paper must introduce a description of the habitat, animal paragraph, plant paragraph, urban, suburban, and rural life (any cities within your habitat), and conclusion should list 4-5 interesting facts.
Intervention (Teacher w/one on one) or small group
Students will. write a 3 paragraph report on one of the piedmont, mountains, swamp/marsh, coastal plain, and Atlantic Ocean. Paper must introduce a description of habitat, 2nd paragraph discusses an animal and plant within the habitat, and the last paragraph talks about 2-3 interesting facts.

7. Habitat Checklist Rubric
EVALUATION
Habitat Checklist Rubric

8. Documentation of Resources
3rd Grade Habitat Framework
(Turtle Bay by Saviour Pirotta)