PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Animal Shelter Photographer
In this WILD TV segment, a photographer helps find homes for animals up for adoption.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Structure, Cover, & Shelter
Learn how to build an appropriate habitat for birds and other animals to maintain structural diversity.
Other
Operation Santa Paws: Holiday Toys and Treats for Shelter Pets
Here is an idea for organizing a volunteer effort to collect needed items for animal shelters.
Other
Broward Community College: The Gopher Tortoise
The population of the gopher tortoise is limited by homes, roads, and buildings made by humans. This valuable species creates burrows that provide shelter for numerous creatures during natural disasters like forest fires. This site...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs Teacher's Guide
This is a free downloadable teacher's guide (PDF) to teach young children (grades K-2) about living things and their needs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Center Card: Build an Animal Habitat
Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Habitats
What is a habitat? In this lesson, learners will identify that a habitat has four elements, food, water, shelter, and space. Students will identify their own habitat and create a brochure describing the habitat in terms of food, water,...
Other
Springboard Magazine: Animal Homes
A nice overview of the reasons why animals need homes as well as different types of homes. Some of the shelters featured include, borrows, hives, dens, nests, and tree hollows.
Wonderville Media
Animal World/wonderville: Dogs
Dogs have needs just like you. They need food, water, shelter, grooming, exercise, health care, and love. Learn more about dogs in this well-constructed overview by Wonderville.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Live Like an Animal
In this activity, students design an innovative human shelter that is inspired and informed by an animal structure. Each group is assigned an animal class, and they gather information about shelters used by the animals in that class....
New York Times
New York Times: Scribd: Living Things Cause Changes on Earth Lesson Plan
This detailed lesson plan will have the students researching why and how animals make changes to the Earth. Students will discover that animals make changes on Earth for various reasons such as shelter, protection from predators, and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Needs of Living Things
In this instructional activity, students watch video clips of animals and plants in their natural environment, to gather evidence that all living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. Then, to illustrate their...
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Habitat
What do you need to survive? Food, water, shelter? Animals need the same things and they live in places that can provide them. This informative site looks at the characteristics, range, habitat, food, reproduction and behavior of the red...
Buck Institute
Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Schoolyard Habitat Project
An example of a project-based learning opportunity that engages students in learning what a healthy habitat is by working within the school's campus to increase opportunity for animals to find food and shelter, maintaining plants, and...