For
hands-on science lesson plans, you can't beat dioramas. Students explore
concepts interactively, making 3-D scenes. Shoebox dioramas (scenes set up
inside boxes tilted on their sides) are a good medium. Dioramas help students
visualize content. Diorama activities work very well for literature, social
studies, animal habitats and life science lesson plans. Use animal habitats
dioramas in life science lesson plansto help students understand how creatures
interact with their environment.
Animal
habitat dioramas can be made with found objects and recyclables. Or here are free
printable animal habitats dioramas. Use free printable animal habitat or biomes
dioramas for biology and other science lesson plans. Students color, cut and
paste and assemble dioramas. Printable dioramas give the added benefit of high
success and low failure. Special needs and easily frustrated students can
create great looking projects and feel proud of their work.
The
American Museum of Natural History has free printable animal habitats dioramas for
different biomes. Click each Ology site
for different science lesson plans. Look for "make it" and
"coloring pages" links. From there, print backgrounds and creatures.
Check out printable games and puzzles and lesson plans, too. Crayola has free printable
dioramas that are simple
enough for preschool lesson plans. Here are free printable animal habitat dioramas of the ocean. Exploring nature hasfree printable animal habitats coloring pages. Students can color and cut out and arrange in
3D shoebox dioramas. Or that could be the backdrop and they could glue plastic
animals and plants in the shoebox base.
First
Palette, a great teacher/homeschool website, has free printable habitats dioramas: Habitats or biomes include coral reef, African
savanna, polar biomes, rainforest and Paleolithic dinosaur habitats. Free
printable animal coloring pages are available at First Palette too. There are
insects, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians in different biomes.
Have kids color and place in the proper environment. This teaches sorting,
classifying and symbiotic relationships. Have kids explore KPCOFGS--kingdom, phylum,
class, order, family, genus and species--concepts too. Perfect for K-8 science,
preschool, homeschool, Montessori and special education.
