When the classes came to the library this week, I taught a brief lesson to prepare the students for their lab, which focuses on physical adaptation this week. On the pre-test many students missed the question on camouflage. After defining camouflage as a physical adaptation, I had intended to play an online game. Unfortunately, the game would not load but serendipitously, I spotted a site selling camouflage for hunting and I was able to illustrate the point using clothing. We talked about why both predators and prey might need camouflage for survival.
After the short lesson, we continued working on the field guides. Some of the students noticed that their field guides had both male and female when the species were dimorphic. That observation led to another discussion of camouflage being important to female birds. I observed most students using the field guide indexes to locate information.
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