Arctic Foxes
By Carri Stuhr
Lerner, 2009
ISBN #978-0-8225-9432-1
NF
Grades 2-5
One of the animal books in the Early Bird Nature Books, Arctic Foxes provides extensive information about the fox and its family. From relationships to food hunting to coloration, the habits and life of the fox are explained in an easy-to-understand manner with the definitions of the more difficult words embedded in the text.
Colorful, interesting photographs appear on each page, illustrating specifics from the narrative text. The back matter includes a section for the adults, suggested reading and websites, a glossary, and an index.
Activity 1
Look up camouflage coloration. Find other animals with protective coloring. Make a chart listing the animals you found and where they live. Discuss how their color camouflages them where they live. Read about the octopus. How do they use protective coloration?
See examples and interact with them on this site.
Here are more examples of protective coloring.
Activity 2
Construct a food chain for the Arctic fox.
Activity 3 (for older readers)
Look up mimicry. Find examples in nature of mimicry.
See additional information here.
National Science Standard: organisms and environments
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The Arctic on the cover is so beautiful. Good idea that you suggested, to look into octopus camouflage as well.
I meant Arctic _fox_ on the cover…
I loved the photos in this book. They were gorgeous. The information was good, too. I couldn’t resisit the cover fox.
Thanks. I saw a special–can’t remember which one–and it showed the octopus changing colors. I didn’t realize they did it so quickly.