Summary
It's Christmastime and the Wild Kratts are taking a break to celebrate — until an alert warns that baby animals are vanishing from around the globe. The holiday party turns into a worldwide rescue mission as the team races their greedy rivals to return each young creature to the exact habitat it depends on before the holidays. A fun, low-stakes way to see how many different animals each need their own particular home.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Every baby animal in this special belongs somewhere specific — the rescue only works if each one goes back to the right home.
- Pick one animal the Kratts rescued. What habitat does it need, and what would happen if it were left somewhere else?
- Why can't all the animals just live in the same place? What does each habitat provide that others don't?
- The villains wanted to keep the baby animals for themselves. Why is a wild animal better off living free in its own habitat than kept as a prize?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: habitat, adaptation, native, migrate, survive.
Try it: Choose two animals from the special that live in very different habitats (say, a polar region and a rainforest). For each, list one thing that habitat gives the animal that it could not get in the other.