How can you tell they’ve got it: Animal Camouflage?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Explains that camouflage means blending in with surroundings; Gives at least 3 examples of camouflaged animals; Explains that camouflage helps animals hide from predators or sneak up on food. Or just try it together: If your child tries to spot a grasshopper in the garden, can they explain that it's hard to see because its green colour helps it hide in the grass — and give other examples of animals that use camouflage?

Science Animals of the World Ages 5–7

Animal Camouflage

Your child knows some animals use colour and pattern to hide. A leaf insect looks like a leaf. An Arctic hare turns white in the snow.

In curriculum terms

Know that many animals use camouflage — colours and patterns that help them blend into their surroundings — to hide from predators or to sneak up on prey, like a leaf insect that looks like a leaf or an Arctic hare that turns white in winter

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How to tell they’ve got it

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Explains that camouflage means blending in with surroundings
Gives at least 3 examples of camouflaged animals
Explains that camouflage helps animals hide from predators or sneak up on food

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Try this together

If your child tries to spot a grasshopper in the garden, can they explain that it's hard to see because its green colour helps it hide in the grass — and give other examples of animals that use camouflage?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Animals Everywhereages 5–7Camouflage builds on awareness that animals live in different environments

Nocturnal Animalsages 5–7Camouflage and nocturnal behaviour are related survival strategies

Animal Camouflagethis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Polar Animalsages 7–9Arctic camouflage (white coats) builds on understanding of camouflage

Predator Hunting Strategiesages 7–9Predator-prey builds on camouflage as a defence strategy

Structural Adaptationsages 9–11Adaptations formalizes what camouflage introduced (structural adaptation)

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U03low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

VC2S2U01low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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