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Grade 3 Science · World 6: Adaptation Station · Level 39
Mimicry
Explain how looking like a dangerous animal protects a harmless one.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 39
- Mimicry is when an animal looks like a different animal that predators stay away from.
- Birds avoid monarch butterflies because they taste bad. The viceroy butterfly looks so much like a monarch that birds leave it alone too!
- Georgia's harmless scarlet kingsnake has red, black, and yellow bands, like the dangerous coral snake. Predators stay away!
- Remember the difference: camouflage blends in with the background, but mimicry looks like another animal. And never touch a wild snake!
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.