Because we had the gym for a limited time, we did the lesson a little out of order. We played some theater games after reading through this awesome lesson that is on-line. Much of it was review but there were also some new vocabulary and content to enhance what we learned on my first visit.
In the gym we did a mirroring exercise with music. I told them one of the four categories of camouflage is MIMICRY where animals will look like something else that is poisonous, dangerous or tastes bad to avoid being prey to other animals.
Then we did a theater experience where we were FLOCKING to music. Click HERE to see the video I took of our flocking. I think Mrs. Webster's video will be better and will post it soon. Before we began, I told them for those that are leading, be willing to fall back and allow someone else to have a turn to lead. After the song I taught them that in acting (especially improv) you need to "feel" when it's your turn to lead and when it's time to follow. There must be "give and take" and when it's your turn to take - TAKE IT! but when it's time to give, be willing to give. Often you must just "feel" this and trust your partners on stage.
We then played a game of tag where those that were "it" were "predators" and those trying not to be tagged were "prey". To become "camouflaged" a "prey" just had to stand on one foot with arms out stretched. But you could only stay like that for 5 seconds. I forgot to tell the "predators" that there is "no guarding" allowed and it looks like a future lesson (around Valentine's Day) will be about RESPECT and KINDNESS. :-)
Back in the classroom we very quickly (too quickly) went through this power point I put together to learn about the four different types of CAMOUFLAGE. We then used three different versions of a quiz to see if they could identify each of the four different kinds of camouflage. Here is a link to the a PDF that includes all three (3) quiz's.
The kids really liked many of the photos the animals in the Power Point.
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