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Insect Camouflage

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate insect camouflage and mimicry. For this animal science lesson, students discuss how camouflage helps an insect survive. Additionally, students use the included template to color and cut illustrations of insects....
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Adaptation and Mimicry - Biology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars compare and contrast adaptations involving camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry. They explain the relationship between adaptation and ability for survival and reproduction. Students define Batesian and Mullerian...
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Mimicry: An Example of Adaptation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to explain the relationship between adaptation and ability for survival and reproduction. They are able to give examples of a series of adaptations that would support the idea that evolution is a series of minor...
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Camouflage

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders collect insects and various bits of the insects' habitats in order to develop an understanding of how camouflage makes the insect fit to survive in its environment.
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How to Hide in the Ocean

For Teachers K - 8th
Students observe and discuss the advantages of camouflage, then try their hands at designing a well-camouflaged fish.
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Hide and Seek

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Why do certain animals look the way they do? It could be because they have developed camouflage. Kids can read up on camouflage and mimicry and then respond to five questions related to the content of the passage.
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Camouflage

For Teachers K
Students observe first hand what it is like to be the prey and what he or she must do to blend in and make themselves less noticeable. They participate in a variety of hands-on activities which help them explain how insects hide...
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Blending Butterflies

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create camouflage butterflies. In this camouflage lesson plan, students read about the different types of camouflage. Each student in the class chooses a spot in the classroom and creates a camouflaged butterfly. They hang up...
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The Big Hideout

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the types of camouflage used by animals in the desert. They work together to create their own animal creating their own type of camouflage. They determine how well the camouflage works.
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Mimics Survive -- Camouflaged Reptiles

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine mimicry as a survival strategy in repiles. They examine examples of the Mexican milksnake and the coralsnake in attempt to distinguish the differences in them. They discuss other species that use mimicry.
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Where are all the Animals?

For Teachers K - 9th
Students view animals that camouflage at the Shedd aquarium website. In this camouflage lesson, students recognize that there are different types of camouflage, cryptic coloring, counter-shading, warning coloration and mimicry. Students...
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Hide In Plain Sight

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students view video clips and use the Internet to look for hidden animals. They then use the Internet to print out animal shapes and color them. They create environments on construction paper in which their animals can hide.
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Adaptation and Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Um may be the atomic symbol for confusion, but it won't be needed in this lesson. Scholars rotate through seven stations completing experiments, hands-on activities, writing exercises, and analysis. Stations include material on...
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Illinois Wild

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify different animals native to Illinois. They research a specific animal to study more about its characteristics, examine what makes a habitat, and recognize the difference between a food web and food chain.
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Periodical Cicada Survival

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore defense mechanisms involved in predatory/prey relationships.They engage in a discussion about predatory/prey interactions. They reflect on the life cycle and behavior of the cicada.
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So You Think the World Evolves Around You?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine the topic of evolution as it relates to biodiversity in various remote areas of the world. They watch videos, conduct Internet research, and in small groups create a digital video report to illustrate common evolution in...
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The Theory of Evolution

For Students 9th - 12th
In this theory of evolution learning exercise, students review vocabulary words associated with evolution including the different types of evolution patters. This learning exercise has 5 true or false and 5 matching questions.
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PERIODICAL CICADA SURVIVAL

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore defense mechanisms involved in predatory/prey relationships.
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The Theory of Evolution

For Students 7th - 12th
In this theory of evolution worksheet, students will review the role Charles Darwin played in the theory of evolution, natural selection, and adaptations. Students will explore some of the different types of evidence for the theory of...
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I Will Survive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore animal adaptations. In this animal science lesson, students watch the video "Kratt's Kreatures" and work in groups to complete a worksheet about animal adaptations.
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North American Butterflies and Moths of Fields, Meadows, and Fencerows

For Students 5th - 8th
In this North American butterflies and moths worksheet, students click on the links in the questions about North American butterflies and moths of fields, meadows, and fencerows to find the answers to the questions and then come back and...
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Spelling List 8: Sight Words, "le" Pattern, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling list learning exercise, students practice spelling words that are sight words, le pattern, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Coloration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students conduct an experiment picking out colored vs. camoflauged toothpicks out of the grass. They list and describe different types of coloration and explain how coloration assists the great horned owl and the striped skunk survive.

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