1. Third grade- Life Science By: Lee Ann Whitney
Organisms and Their Habitats
Third grade- Life Science
By: Lee Ann Whitney

2. Table of Contents Let’s Investigate
What do living things need to survive
Activities
Ecosystems
Habitats
Animal needs
Specific habitats for animals
Animal report
Video clip
Georgia Performance Standards

3. Let’s investigate What is an ecosystem? What is a habitat?
What do animals need to live?
Where do they get the things they need to live?
How can you use observation to find out how an animal lives?
Ecosystems

4. What do living things need to survive?
Choose one living thing you observed and write down what in that environment or habitat gives the living thing what it needs to survive.

5. Activity
You may work alone, in a pair or a group up to 4 students. We will be observing organisms in their habitat outside.
When you get outside take your string and place it on the ground in circle.

6. Activity Living Nonliving
Make a list of all the things you observe in your circle.
Write the items in the correct place on the chart.

7. Graphs
We will make a graph together of the living and nonliving things you found in the environment.

8. What we are investigating
Let’s go back and see what we wanted to learn.
Let’s Investigate

9. Ecosystems
An ecosystem is the living and nonliving things in an environment that affect each other. Ecosystems include the interactions that occur among living things.

10. Ecosystems

11. Habitat
A habitat is the specific place where an organism lives. A habitat provides an organism with all its needs and includes nonliving and living things. There are many habitats in an ecosystem.

12. What do animals need
shelter
food
water
air

13. Animals need to live in their specific habitats
Where am I?
This is not my habitat.
Why do I need to live
in India and not Georgia?.

14. Why animals need to live in specific regions

15. Why are there no penguins in Georgia?
Choose an animal that lives in a place other than Georgia. Do a report about that organism, its needs, its habitat, and why, based on its needs and features, it lives somewhere other than Georgia. For example, penguins do not live in Georgia except in zoos or animal parks. You would find out why an animal in not native to Georgia, what it needs to live, and its habitat.

16. Animal Report
Click on report
for printable
version

17. Animals and Habitats

18. Georgia Performance Standards
S3L1. Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat.
S3CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.

19. Georgia Performance Standards
S3CS4. Students will use ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.
S3CS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
S3CS8. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.