9.

Create a mini-subfloor and forest. floor habitat by cutting the

top off a plastic 2-liter bottle. Add soil and stones, make mock

burrows, then add needles, decomposed plants, fungus, etc.

Materials can be gathered from different places and bottles

compared for observing differences.

10.

Instruct students to make mobiles showing the layers and

habitats of a Washington forest. Use labels to identify animals

and types of vegetation.

Assessment What Did We Learn?

Each student is to write a descriptive sentence for every one of the

four habitat layers. Next to each sentence, ask the student to list two

animals found in that layer.