Teacher guide animal adaptations, Rousseau, and chimera

1. Teacher Guide:
Animal Adaptations, Henri Rousseau,
& Chimera
Amy Zschaber azschaber@stancoe.org
azschaber@stancoe.org

2. What are Adaptations?
• An adaptation is a feature that helps a plant
or animal survive
Polar Bear
How does the color of a
polar bear help it to
survive?
Leaf Insect
How does the shape of a
leaf insect help it to
survive?

3. Let’s Review
• Tigers are
mammals
• Tigers eat meat
(carnivores)

4. Why do you think. . .
• Tigers have stripes?
• Tigers have big teeth?
• Tigers have good hearing?
• Tigers like to hunt at night?
• Tigers have long legs?

5. Tiger Adaptations
• Stripes
• Teeth
• Long legs
• Hearing
• Night-vision

6. Tiger Adaptation: Stripes
• Tiger stripes are an adaptation.
• Stripes help tigers hide. This makes it hard for
both predators and prey to find tigers.

7. Tiger Adaptation: Teeth
• Tiger teeth are an adaptation.
• Tigers have strong jaws with big teeth that
help them kill, chew, tear, and bite.

8. Tiger Adaptation: Long Legs
• Tiger legs are an adaptation.
• The long legs of a tiger are very strong. A tiger
can jump up to 33 feet.

9. Tiger Adaptation: Hearing
• Good hearing is a tiger adaptation.
• Tigers have very good hearing. They can hear
things that even other animals cannot hear!

10. Tiger Adaptation: Vision
• Tiger vision is an adaptation.
• Tigers have very good vision; they can even see at night
(night-vision). Tigers are mostly nocturnal hunters. This means
they like to hunt at night.

11. Henri Rousseau
• This is Henri Rousseau.
• What is Rousseau
doing?
• Does Rousseau live
today or long ago?
• Where is Rousseau?
• Why was this picture of
Rousseau made?

12. Henri Rousseau
• This is Henri Rousseau.
• Rousseau lived 1844-1910
• Rousseau is an artist.
• Rousseau is French.
• Rousseau did not begin
making art until he was
very old. He retired from
his job, and taught himself
how to paint.

13. Rousseau loved painting jungles
• Rousseau never
left France.
• There was little
photography in
Rousseau’s time.
• How do you think
Rousseau knew
what jungles look
like?

14. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

15. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

16. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

17. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

18. Rousseau used his imagination to paint
scenes of jungle life.

19. Read: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown
• Read aloud: https://youtu.be/gh0RzikLtx4

20. What is the story about?

21. How does Mr. Tiger feel? What does
he do about it?

22. How do the
other animals
feel about Mr.
Tiger’s actions?
What do they do
about it?

23. Same / Different?
Illustration from Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
by: John Brown
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
by: Henri Rousseau

24. Same / Different?
Illustration from Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
by: John Brown
Jungle with Tiger
by: Henri Rousseau

25. Do you think Peter Brown was inspired by
Henri Rousseau? Why / Why not?

26. Read What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
http://goo.gl/Z50Kjp

27. Chimera
• A make-believe “monster” that is made by
combining parts of different animals.

28. In a way, Rousseau was painting chimera.
• Imagine how animals
looked based on
descriptions
• Imagine where
animals live based on
descriptions
• Guess what animals
adaptations were
based on descriptions

29. Pretend you are Rousseau:
What could these animals be?

30. Pretend you are Rousseau:
What could these animals eat?

31. Pretend you are Rousseau:
In what habitat might these animals live?

32. Brainstorm. . . & Build a Chimera
http://switchzoo.com/zoo-original.htm
http://bestiary.ca/

33. Optional: Complete Information About
Your Chimera & Print

34. Design a
Chimera

36. Sculpt your
chimera,
and build an
environment
where s/he
can live

37. Open
your bag
of
Model
Magic

38. Remove
the
Model
Magic
from the
bag

39. Pinch
into 3
parts:
1 – head
2 – body
3 - extras

40. Sculpt
your
head and
body.
Stick
them
together.

41. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

42. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

43. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

44. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

45. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

46. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

47. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

48. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

49. Continue
to sculpt
your
Model
Magic

50. Add any
other
“extras”
to your
chimera

51. Gather
materials
to color
your
chimera.
You can
use
markers
or
paint

52. Color
your
chimera

53. Check all
sides of
your
chimera
for color

54. Gather:
-markers
-crayons
-scissors
- 2 white
sheets of
paper

55. Fold one
sheet of
paper in
half

56. Identify & Define Foreground, Middle
Ground, & Background

57. Identify & Define Foreground, Middle
Ground, & Background
background
middle ground
foreground

58. Create an
environment
where your
chimera can
live.
middle ground

59. On the 2nd
sheet of
paper
draw a few
“extras”

60. Draw a
“tab” at
the
bottom
of each
extra

61. Color
and cut
out the
extras

62. Fold the tabs
down and
find your
environment

63. Glue the
extras
down

64. Add your
chimera to
your
environment