Having completed the City Wildlife unit for the first time,
these are my thoughts on what the unit is about and how I would
approach teaching it next time. Students already know a little
bit about animals. They’ve had the animal unit and the
camouflage unit prior to coming to third grade. But this is not
just an animals unit…The trick here is in categorizing animals
as living in the city or not and talking about the unique
challenges that city animals face versus animals living
elsewhere. Graphic organizers which categorize animals by
habitat would be helpful (perhaps a tree map) and organizers
that compare and contrast living in the city or in rural areas
(like a Venn Diagram or Double Bubble) would be helpful.