Camouflage in the Forest, Read and Answer

Read the passage aloud together and look at the diagram before your child starts the questions. Each question names the paragraph that holds the answer, so show your child how to go back and check. On a walk, look for an insect or bird that matches its background.

Read how four forest animals blend in with camouflage, study the diagram and answer questions. Camouflage is a color, pattern or shape that helps an animal blend in. A predator is an animal that hunts other animals. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, study the labeled diagram. Use both to answer the questions on the next page. On page 2: Read each question. Circle the letter of the best answer, or write your answer on the lines. Use the passage and the diagram to help you. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade living things, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with camouflage and mimicry. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Camouflage helps an animal blend in with the place around it, like a fawn whose spots look like patches of sunlight. Mimicry is when a harmless animal looks like a dangerous one, like a hoverfly with the yellow and black stripes of a wasp. Both help an animal stay safe from predators.

Its fur turns white as the days get shorter in fall and brown again in spring, so it matches snow in winter and the forest floor in summer. The sheet has children put the four steps of the change in order and answer questions about the lynx that hunts it.

They support 3-LS4-2, which asks children to explain how differences in traits help some animals survive, and 3-LS4-3, which is about how well animals survive in a given habitat. A fawn on the forest floor or a white hare in the snow is easy for children to picture.

Yes. All three camouflage and mimicry sheets have an answer key.

3 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 3rd Grade students, roughly ages 8-9. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the NGSS code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.