by Hannah Mooney

Mrs. Dunlap’s third grade class just finished creating their habitat projects. For the past two and half weeks, each student vigorously built their habitat inside a large paper grocery bag. Students had several options from which to choose for their habitat project, including ocean, desert, forest, grassland, swamp, and tundra. While none of the students chose to do a habitat over the swamp and tundra, several chose to use the ocean and grassland habitats.

Throughout this project, students learned what animals are in the different habitats, that some creatures in the sea have not been discovered, and that every food chain begins with the sun. Not only did the students have to create a habitat, but they also had to write a paragraph over the habitat they chose to build.

Brody McKee chose to create the ocean habitat, and he said, “I learned how much life is actually in the ocean, and I don’t know that I want to swim in the ocean anymore with the sharks.”

Students display their ocean habitats.

Alyssa Wilson also chose to do the ocean habitat, and the hardest part of the project for her was to get all the plants for her ocean.

Students show off their desert habitats.

Xavier Viers chose to do his project over the desert and said his hardest part of the project was making his sand snake for his habitat.

These two students created a forest habitat.

Grassland was the habitat these students created.

Students will have the opportunity to show their parents the end result of their hard work on this project at Parent Teacher Conferences next week.