ABSTRACT
Children collect 'wool' caterpillars of different colours to develop their understanding that some colours can be seen more easily in the environment than others, and that some animals use camouflage to avoid predators while others are brightly coloured as a warning to predators. Group the children into teams and explain that they are going to search for 'caterpillars' around the grounds but only one person from each team is allowed to search for one caterpillar at any time. Camouflage is an adaptation that allows some animals to blend in with certain aspects of their environment to increase the chance of survival by hiding them from predators. Children can photograph the camouflaged animal against the habitat/background to be displayed around the classroom or in a class book. The data from the caterpillar collections can be transferred to a bar graph: 'A graph to show which colour caterpillars were collected at different intervals'.
