Please be sure to check out the supplemental resources on all things Engineering and Engineers for teachers to use in conjunction with these texts. There are videos to serve as hooks/activators for the read aloud or to serve as background knowledge-building resources and/or inspiration for our Mableton Jaguar Scholars during their aligned STEAM Challenges. There are also additional fiction and informational texts listed you can check out as well as the emoji book reviews available for each grade level.
A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor. This title has been also been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar!
Imagine you are lost in a desert. The sun is beating down and you are alone. Would you be able to survive? How does anything survive in such a harsh environment? Find out in this informative title.
Videos on Animal Adaptations
Additional Animal Adaptation Books
Fun to watch list of 25 animals who have adaptation down!
This is a great video showing the names of different animals in their natural camouflage. This would be a great slideshow to have class discussion about the type of camouflage shown and how it might help the animal survive.
Although this is a lengthy video, this 4H produced video does a great job of discussing how bird adaptations affect feeding behaviors! You may want to pick and choose what you show for time's sake.
This is a great informational video on the adaptation that kesep arctic animals warm.
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins
Claws, Coats, and Camouflage by Susan Goodman
Creature Features by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Eye to Eye by Steve Jenkins
Move! by Robin Page and Steve Jenkins
What If You Had Animal Teeth? by Sandra Markle & Howard McWilliam
What If You Had Animal Feet? by Sandra Markle and Howard McWilliam
*Plus many more in the "What you had animal... " series!
This is a great arts and crafts activity that has students create an animal camouflaged in its natural habitat.
Check out the video to the left (<---) to find out how to make blubber gloves to feel how the blubber in arctic animals helps to keep them warm!