Hide In Plain Sight

Test your learners' sensory awareness with three hands-on activities that ask pupils to use their other senses to identify and describe everyday objects hidden from sight.  

Students read about animal camouflage. In this animal adaptation lesson, students read short texts about ways in which animals hide or transform to escape their prey. Students explore animal classifications and determine ways to hide in...

Young biologists take a look at the myriad of ways that animals increase their chances of surviving in the wild. The adaptations help animals hide, hunt, and attract a mate. This lesson specifically explores how insect mouth parts are...

A nicely designed learning exercise for young learners is here for you. Pupils read some interesting text about giraffes, then must write down four things that giraffes eat. There is a word puzzle at the bottom of the learning exercise...

Students create a picture showing either general resemblance or special resemblance camouflage that animals use to hide from predators. They clip an animal picture from a magazine and then create a background that blends with the animal...

Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the instructional activity for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global...

Students explore methods of written communication. In this Plains Indian lesson, students create pictographs representing everyday modern life after observing the pictographs used by the Plains Indians. Pictograph stories are written on...

Learners study about the Native American practice of writing stories on buffalo skins. They study about pictographs and use symbols to write their own stories using "buffalo hides" they have created.

Students, the advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level, use English in a science activity.

Students explore optical illusions. In this Applied Science lesson plan, students view optical illusions and record the data of what they see. Students graph the data that they collect.