Ready-to-teach lesson
Classify Details About Animal Camouflage
Animals in Camouflage - Grade 2 - Short lesson
TIME
OBJECTIVE
PRODUCT
16 minutes Collect the way each animal hides, in its own words, and then sort Rows for each animal, with a box the ways into groups. for how it hides and a box for which group that belongs in Essential question: They all hide. Do they all hide in the same way?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 1 - a pale snowfield with faint shapes in it
- A row for each animal in the book, and three group headings on the board
- Passage 3 - a mass of bright green leaves with one odd shape among them
- Prepared passages: Passage 1, Passage 3, Passage 6, Passage 8
Lesson sequence
1 Matching the snow - 5 min
- Passage 6 - a yellow spider on a yellow flower
- Passage 8 - a thicket of saplings with dappled shapes behind it
- Focus:
- Hiding by matching one colour
- Teacher model:
- Read this page and ask what would give this animal away.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 1 2 Being the wrong shape - 7 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write how each of these hides.
- Expected answer:
- Wings shaped like the leaves it eats, and trembling like one. And slowly changing colour to match a yellow or white flower.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 3, Passage 6 3 Choosing where to sit - 4 min
- Teacher direction:
- Write what this animal needs around it for its spots to work.
- Expected answer:
- Sunlight and shadows on a forest floor.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 8
Support & extension
Above: Say which animals can change after they arrive somewhere, and which have to pick the right place first.
Below: Say how the animal on the first page hides.
Assessment
- Uses the animal's own words for its method
- Puts each animal in a group and can say why
- Notices that some can change colour and some cannot
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