Camouflage

Explain how colors and patterns help animals hide.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 38

Camouflage is a color or pattern that helps an animal blend into its surroundings.
A white-tailed deer fawn has white spots that look like patches of sunlight on the forest floor. Lying still, it's very hard to see!
Georgia's green anole lizard can turn green on leaves or brown on bark.
Camouflage helps animals hide from predators, and it helps predators sneak up on their prey.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S3L1.b — Construct an explanation of how external features and adaptations (camouflage, hibernation, migration, mimicry) of animals allow them to survive in their habitat.