Camouflage
This worksheet is a combination of a science lesson and a reading comprehension activity. Students read a short description of how animals use camouflage and then answer a series of questions on that reading. Additionally, there is an optional secondary activity where students take a lizard template and colour it to help it blend into its surroundings around the classroom or playground. This second activity can be done as a contest to see how creatively and effectively students are able to camouflage their lizards.
Learning goals
- We are learning to read texts and apply appropriate comprehension strategies to analyse information, e.g. predicting, confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
- We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
- We are learning to understand that living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
- We are learning to understand that living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
The reading portion could be read as a class or in small groups to ensure all students are able to understand some of the science terminology.
Extensions
Rather than use the templates for students to colour for camouflage, students could create their camouflage creature from the ground up, giving them many more opportunities to think about things like shape and material and how the might also help with camouflage.