Read each need
Food, water and shelter can have different allowed distances.
Habitat Builder
Arrange water, food and shelter within a frog, rabbit or garden bird’s stated reach.
Grades 2–5 · Biology
Your goal
Arrange water, food and shelter within the frog's listed reach of habitat space 4. Each resource needs its own space.
Reduced motion is on. The controls still update the scene.
Water is 3 spaces away, allowed 1. Move it closer. Food is 2 spaces away, allowed 2. Need met. Shelter is 1 space away, allowed 1. Need met.
A habitat supplies food, water, shelter and usable space. Here each animal has stated travel limits for each need. These limits are puzzle rules, not real animal ranges. The frog uses a pond and log cover, the rabbit uses clover and a burrow, and the bird uses seeds and tree cover. Other needs such as temperature, safety and breeding space are omitted.
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Learn with Habitat Builder
Habitat Builder gives elementary students a concrete resource placement puzzle. Arrange water, food and shelter across six habitat spaces while an animal remains at its marked home space. Each need lists a travel limit, and the feedback reports the current distance to every resource. Move a resource into an occupied space to swap the two resources without losing either one. Different goals introduce a frog, rabbit or garden bird with appropriate food and shelter examples. The activity uses explicit puzzle distances and does not claim to measure real animal ranges.
What to look for
Use swaps
An occupied destination swaps the two resources.
Check all resources
A habitat goal needs all three listed needs to be met.
For teachers and curious learners
Build a habitat arrangement that meets explicit resource and space needs. Ask students to predict what will happen, change one setting, and explain what they observe. Learn gives a starting point. Practice and Challenge offer new goals with the same scene.
Six-space habitat puzzle with stated travel limits rather than species-specific ranges. Temperature, breeding, competition and many other habitat needs are omitted.