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 instructional activity 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 instructional...

A truly versatile, yet focused classroom tool. This app provides an easy and customizable way for users to outline and arrange a set of events or actions. The final product is a saveable, shareable, and attractive graphic organizer.

Students explore the culture of Native American people, their homes, use of animal hides, history, and culture. They create a teepee and pelts to represent their researched tribe. Students share their researched information with their...

Students research native people living on the Great Plains and how they depended on the buffalo for survival and discover the many uses for their hides and other parts. They create a detailed display to show several items that were made...

Learners 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...

Students 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.