Create representations of wild animals designed to visually blend into or stand out in their habitats, then discuss coloration as an adaptation for survival.

Additional Resources
Hide and Seek Wildlife Activity
How Insects Hide in Plain Sight (from Virginia Public Media's "What's Bugging You?" series)

In Step with STEM Resources
Biomimicry

Teach Engineering: Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?

https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/colors_absorb_heat_better

Ask Nature Nugget: Octopus and Cephalopods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtxG9YiA2g

Science Daily: Octopus-inspired camouflage systems

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818204118.htm

WILD Work Job Profiles and Videos
Ethologist

Ethologist: Salary and Career Facts http://degreedirectory.org/articles/Ethologist_Your_Career_and_Salary_Questions_Answered.html

National Geographic: Ethologist, Dorothy Fragaszy http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/dorothy-fragaszy/

Octopus vulgaris camouflage change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSq8nghQZqA

Amazing behavior of moth for camouflage #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgn0dNpopU

What is an Ethologist? http://learn.org/articles/Ethologist_Your_Career_and_Salary_Questions_Answered.html

Entomologist

Sarah Beynon Showreel: Entomologist and Wildlife presenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOgVsHViIk

Meet the Entomologists at the Cockrell Butterfly Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=causIzD5Z-o

How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovation http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-biomimicry-is-inspiring-human-innovation-17924040/?no-ist

Doctor Buggs: Locomotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iDs_Iykgng

Wonderville: Entomology http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/entomology

Leggy! Entomology Careers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqDBQOSTCk0

About Bioscience: Entomologist http://www.aboutbioscience.org/careers/entomologist

Forensic Entomology - The Crime Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVKISCmjTQ

Entomology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-y6PLtY5s