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How do animals make their homes in the forest?
Plant & Animal Secrets Unit | Lesson 4 of 6

How do animals make their homes in the forest?

Plant & Animal Secrets Unit | Lesson 4 of 6
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# Optional Activity: Nature Explorers

Your students can take a nature walk, just like Desiree did.

  • Take some time to sit quietly outside—in a park, on the playground, or wherever you might be able to see the animals that live in your neighborhood.

  • Have students watch for insects in the grass, birds in the trees, squirrels scurrying across their path. Make a list of the animals everyone sees.

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forest


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a place with lots of trees
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nest


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a thing built by an animal where they raise their young
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Grade K

Plant & Animal Needs

Animals & Changing the Environment

K-ESS2-2

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In this Read-Along lesson, Desiree notices all the holes in the trees around her house—and sets out to discover how they got there, and why they matter. The lesson includes a short exercise where students listen for animal sounds and pretend to be woodpeckers. You can extend the lesson with the optional activity, Nature Explorers, where students go for a nature walk and look for animals in their homes.

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Grade K

Plant & Animal Needs

Animals & Changing the Environment

K-ESS2-2

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