Deciding What Humans Need to Survive

Mentor showing students survival techniques.

Students will investigate the survival need of animals – including air, water, food and shelter – by building forts for themselves and determining what else they would need to live there, indefinitely. Students will extrapolate from this activity to identify the basic survival needs of any animal, and use that information to improve the garden … Read more

Exploring How Animals Survive in our Garden

2 ladybugs sitting on a leaf

Students will observe the garden or schoolyard and dig in the soil to look for evidence of animals that live there; investigate the specific survival needs of those particular animals; and determine whether they are all met in the garden.