At a glance
Animal Homes is a 60-minute workshop for kindergarten to grade 3. Students place animal figures on the right country, match each animal with its home, draw their favourite animal and handle real animal homes: a beehive, shells, a beaver lodge and nests.
The big bad wolf can huff and puff all he wants: animals have it all figured out!
Safe behind their shells, their lodges, their nests, their hives, their burrows… they are protected.
Placing animal figures on the right country, matching an animal card with its home, exploring our book collection, drawing a favourite animal and handling real animal homes (beehive, honeycomb, shells, beaver lodge, nests…): these are the main activities waiting for your biologists!
Watch out, great architects: the competition is fierce!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Describe physical features that show how an animal is adapted to its environment.
- Describe behaviours that help a familiar animal adapt to its environment.
- Identify habitats and the animal and plant populations that live there.
- Describe how animals meet their basic needs in their habitat.
- Describe relationships between living things (parasitism, predation).
- Explain adaptations that improve an animal’s chances of survival (for example, mimicry and camouflage).
