Today Four Winds volunteers helped us learn about camouflage and animal
disguises. We saw a slide show of different animals and how they either
blend in, or have bright colors to warn predators that they taste or
smell bad. Students thought it was interesting that frogs are lighter
on the bottom so that fish think they are the sky and dark on the top so
that predators, like the blue heron, think they are water. Outside we
pretended we were birds searching for worms. We noticed it was much
easier to find the worms (yarn pieces) that were a different color than
the ground. Finding the gray and brown worms that blended into the ground
were much more difficult.
