Habitats covers these concepts: a habitat is a place where plants and animals naturally live, a desert habitat has very little rainfall, a forest is a tree-covered habitat, a pond is a fresh-water habitat, an ocean is a salt-water habitat, a savanna is a grassland habitat, and a polar habitat is very cold. A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes: teacher directions for lessons and reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations.