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Healthy Habitat / Environment - Preschool Education Unit
Healthy Habitat Unit
The Healthy Habitat Unit was developed in collaboration with the National Wildlife Federation.
This unit focuses on learning about our environment, and how to keep it safe for ourselvse and the animals and plants that share it. The specific activities allow the children to practice ways of observing their local environment and understanding the importance of caring for our land, water, and air. We will also focus on teaching the reduce, reuse, and recycle method of dealing with trash and other waste to help care for our habitat.
Goals and Objectives
The children will be able to define the terms "environment" and "habitat."
The children will be able to identify the three things - shelter, food, and water - that make up a habitat, and learn that all living things need a healthy habitat.
The children will be able to identify animals that share their environment.
The children will be able to identify sources of food, shelter, and water for local wildlife.
The children will be able to demonstrate methods of maintaining a clean habitat, including waste reduction, reusing, and recycling.
Points to emphasize:
This is a chapter in the Healthy Start, Health Education Program for Preschoolers Sample Activities From the Chapter:
A habitat is a place where people, animals, and plants live.
Your neighrborhood (apartment complex, street, town) is your habitat.
Animals have many different types of habitats. They can live in water, trees, land, or underground.
All people and animals need water, shelter, and food.
Some food comes from plants and animals.
Like people, some animals eat meat, some eat plants, and some eat meat and plants.
Some animals that we don't see leave tracks or other signs that they were there.
It is important to keep our environment clean. Reducing, reusing, and recycling resources are ways to help protect our habitat.
It is important not to waste limited resources, such as energy, paper, and water.
People should not litter.
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