Introduction to Habitats

Students went on a gallery walk and wrote words that the pictures on the tables triggered.  They did not know the topic of the unit yet and were using their reasoning skills to make connections between pictures throughout the room. A variety of habitat pictures were placed around the room. Once they visited each picture, they met on the rug to make predictions about what the unit might be aboutwith their peers.  After whole class discussion and figuring out that the topic was habitats, the students returned to the pictures and added additional words to the poster now looking at the photo through the lenses of a habitat.