Hidden Safari

This hidden safari lesson was presented to us by our art professor, Mrs. Preszler. She used this lesson as an example of how our peer lessons were to be presented and the time length that they needed to be. This lesson was for 1st grade.
She started off this lesson by presenting information about the jungle and animals that we would see there. We were to pick out an animal to draw on the while piece of paper and we drew the animal upside down. The reason we drew them upside was to help us incase drawing them the right side up would be overwhelming. While we were drawing our animals, we used a light blue colored pencils. Once we finished drawing the animal, we made our ruby red glasses. These glasses allowed us to see the animal behind the other objects that we would draw on top of them. We drew different objects on top of our animal drawings, but this time we used "warm" colors. Since you couldn't see the animals with the naked eye, we wrote three clues to help classmates guess what our
jungle animal would be.

An extension project that I thought would work well with this lesson is to go further into the jungle them. We could look up more animals that we would see in the jungle and list characteristics about them. You could introduce the habitats that animals live in and the types of food that they eat. It would work well with a geography or science
 lesson.