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You may want to play this game on a softer surface, such as grass.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EBooks you could read to explore habitat loss include \u2018The Journey Home\u2019 by Frann Preston-Gannon.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003ERunning this activity\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGather everyone together and ask if everyone knows what a habitat is. A habitat is a place where plants, animals and microorganisms live. It could be a tree, a sand dune, a coral reef, or simply the wildflowers growing in the cracks of pavements.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETell everyone there are lots of different types of habitats. There\u2019s woodland, ocean, desert, rainforest, urban, coastal, pond and polar habitats. Can anyone think of animals or plants that might live in these habitats, or which habitat they live in?\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk everyone how they think humans can impact animal and plant habitats. They can cause habitats to get destroyed or damaged, which is called habitat loss. Habitat loss is happening across the world, from shrinking rainforests to melting ice caps. Some of the main reasons habitats are lost can be when people farm too much, fish a lot, build more houses and cities, chop down too many trees, and when the weather changes a lot. These things make it hard for animals to find places to live.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EExplain that you\u2019ll be playing a game to show how hard it is for animals and plants when habitats are lost. They\u2019ll all be on a blanket or groundsheet, but it\u2019ll shrink, so they need to be careful not to fall off. The aim of the game is to be the team that keeps everyone on the blanket or groundsheet the longest.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EDivide the group into three different habitat teams, such as rainforest, woodland and polar. Each team should choose different animals from their habitat that they can be.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ELay a \u00A0blanket or groundsheet on the floor and ask everyone to get on it. Ask everyone if they\u2019ve lots of space in the habitat. If they can, people could move around.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ENow, oh no, some of the habitat is being lost because people are chopping down trees. Fold the groundsheet or blanket to remove a quarter of the space. Encourage everyone to help their team to stay on the groundsheet.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAsk everyone if they can still move around in the same way now that some of their habitat has disappeared.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhen someone can no longer fit on the blanket or groundsheet, they\u2019re out.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ENext, uh oh, some more of the habitat is being lost as people are building more houses. Fold the groundsheet or blanket to remove a quarter of the space.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EKeep going and removing habitat due to different reasons, such as people littering, pollution, too much farming, too much fishing, someone\u2019s building a road or climate change is happening, which means the Earth\u2019s temperature is getting hotter. \u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EEventually, there won\u2019t be enough space for everyone to fit on the blanket or groundsheet.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EThe team with most people left on the groundsheet at the end wins.\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ol\u003E","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""}]}],"config":null}]},"ownerAuthor":null,"porRules":null,"id":81681,"nodeName":"Play shrinking habitat","title":"Play shrinking habitat","type":"activity","image":{"url":"/media/z1pf52d1/nattergal-seo.png?width=800\u0026height=450\u0026v=1dce1635ecf5450","caption":"Nattergal","type":"png","size":59146,"width":1902,"height":1100,"altText":""},"assets":[],"headerOptions":{"headerTitle":"Play shrinking habitat","headerSubTitle":null,"headerCta":null,"headerCtaText":null,"headerCtaLink":null,"headerBackgroundColour":null,"showSEOImage":false,"headerBackgroundImage":null,"quickLinks":null},"searchDescription":"This game\u2019s all about how habitats are shrinking and how this impacts the animals that live in them.","subHeader":"This game\u2019s all about how habitats are shrinking and how this impacts the animals that live in them.","browserTitle":null,"silktide":"eyJjbXMiOiJVbWJyYWNvIiwiZWRpdG9yVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wcm9kLWNtcy5zY291dHMub3JnLnVrLy91bWJyYWNvIy9jb250ZW50L2NvbnRlbnQvZWRpdC84MTY4MSJ9","canonicalUrl":"https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/play-shrinking-habitat/"}