Cynthia Ponter and Stephanie Seaton

HABITATS: CHAMELEON EXERCISE

AND HOMAGE TO ERIC CARLE

Create Your Chameleon’s Habitat

• Objectives/Assessment:

• 1) For students to understand the reptile’s habitat.

• 2) For students to understand the need for adapting for survival.

• 3) For students to understand the importance of blending and color usage.

Grade Level 3

HOOK1) WHERE DO CHAMELEON’S LIVE?

2) WHAT DO THEY EAT?

3) HOW DO THEY CHANGE THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN?

SOL• 3.4 Life Processes- The student will investigate and understand that adaptations allows animals to satisfy life needs and respond to the environment. Key concepts include: • A) behavioral adaptations• B) physical adaptations.

• 3.5 Living Systems- The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts include: • A) producer, consumer, decomposer• B) herbivore, carnivore, omnivore• C) predator and prey

SOL• 3.5 Visual Communication and Production- The student will compare, contrast and use organic and geometric shapes in works of art.

• 3.8 The student will identify and use foreground, middle ground, and background in two-dimensional works of art.

Materials:

PROCEDURES1) Homage to Eric Carle- using similar

techniques, paint your paper. Think of colors a chameleons natural habitat would be.

2) Using chameleon and leaf templates, after paint dries, trace figures and cut them out.

3) Decorate box using the rest of the painted paper or construction paper, securing it down with glue or tape.

4) Place you twig/stick somewhere in your habitat scene for your chameleon to stand on. Secure with glue or tape.

5) Place chameleon in scene along with cut our leaves, as well as using the tissue paper to enhance your habitat. Secure all with glue or tap.

Box PaintPaperPaint BrushesScissorsPencilGlueTapeTwigs/SticksConstruction PaperColored Tissue Paper

VOCABULARY• Habitat- natural environment by which an organism lives, or the physical environment that surrounds it.

• Camouflage- a concealment by means of disguise

• Predator- an organism that is hunting

• Blend- to combine or mix

• Shading- the representation of the different values of color or light and dark in a painting or drawing

CLOSURE INQUIRY Red light, Green light game: Have students play a game while mimicking a reptile’s movement’s and speed by moving around the classroom using the red light, green light game!

•DIFFERENTIATION• Teachers can provide special grip scissors, templates and guides for tracing, and assistance with cutting.

RUBRICSCreate Your Chameleon and it’s Habitat!(15 points)

Proficient: Strong Evidence

Partially Proficient:Some Evidence

Missing/Late:No Evidence

Design- clean cutting lines, use of materials (tissue paper, paints, construction paper, twigs)

5 Points:Student took full advantage of materials

3 Points:Student only used one kind of material

0 Points:No evidence

Elements of Art- use of color, pattern, shape

5 Points:Student used many colors and pattern

3 Points:Student only used one color and pattern but has a lot of detail

0 Points:No color was used, lack of effort

Craft/Technical Skills- pop out and stand up

5 Points:Student was able to make habitat stand and chameleon pop out

3 Points:Student was some what proficient in this task

0 Points:Habitat does not stand and chameleon is flat

EARLY FINISHER ACTIVITY• Let the students think of other animals that would be in the same habitat as the chameleon. • Create the animal! Trace, cut out, decorate, and secure into habitat.

REFERENCES www.merriam-webster.comwww.wikipedia.comwww.thefreedictionary.comwww.dictionary.reference.com

My Chameleon