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Week 11 · When Habitats Change

Explorer Day

Explorer Day: Find One Change
// Move, adjust or decline
⏱ about 15 min

Explorer Day: Find One Change

Rocket, Raven and Nova stand at the start of the sidewalk. "Today we are change detectives," Rocket says.

Raven holds up her notebook. "We walk, we look for one change, and we write down what living things did."

Nova glows a soft cyan. "Remember the three words," she says. "Move, adjust, decline. And look for the one that helped."

  1. A habitat change is anything that moves food, water, shelter or space.
  2. Changes come from nature or from people, and can be fast or slow.
  3. Living things move, adjust or decline, and their bodies decide which they can do.
  4. People can add food, water, shelter or space with small, careful changes.
◇ EXPLORER DAY: FIND ONE CHANGE
Walk your street, yard or park path with your grown-up for fifteen minutes.
Find one change. A cut tree, new pavement, a dry spot or a new plant all count.
Write it down: what changed, nature or people, fast or slow.
Look for two minutes. List any living things you see near the change.
For each one, guess: move, adjust or decline? Write why you think so.
Find one change that helped, like a planted flower bed or a birdbath. Write who it helps.
Back home, talk together: what one helpful change could your family make?
Safety first
Stay with your grown-up and keep to sidewalks and paths.
Look with your eyes. Never touch animals, nests, eggs, mushrooms or unknown plants.
Stay back from any water and away from any work site or machines.
Wash your hands when you get home.
For a grown-up
Any change counts, even a mowed lawn. The point is to link the change to living things.
Ask: what did this change take away or add? Who might have used that?
If your child wants to try a helpful change, pick the smallest one first. Set it up together.
EXPLORER DAY CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
You find a freshly cut tree stump. What did the change most likely take away?
Which is a helpful change a family could make?
What word means to become fewer over time?
WHY THIS EXERCISEWhen living things cannot move or adjust, they decline.

Great detective work! Next week you become a citizen scientist and share what you have found.

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