color crazy
AFWA Inspires
Create representations of wild animals designed to visually blend into or stand out in their habitats, then discuss coloration as an adaptation for survival.
Additional Resources
Hide and Seek Wildlife Activity
How Insects Hide in Plain Sight (from Virginia Public Media's "What's Bugging You?" series)
In Step with STEM Resources
Biomimicry
Teach Engineering: Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/colors_absorb_heat_better
Ask Nature Nugget: Octopus and Cephalopods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtxG9YiA2g
Science Daily: Octopus-inspired camouflage systems
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818204118.htm
WILD Work Job Profiles and Videos
Ethologist
Ethologist: Salary and Career Facts http://degreedirectory.org/articles/Ethologist_Your_Career_and_Salary_Questions_Answered.html
National Geographic: Ethologist, Dorothy Fragaszy http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/dorothy-fragaszy/
Octopus vulgaris camouflage change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSq8nghQZqA
Amazing behavior of moth for camouflage #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgn0dNpopU
What is an Ethologist? http://learn.org/articles/Ethologist_Your_Career_and_Salary_Questions_Answered.html
Entomologist
Sarah Beynon Showreel: Entomologist and Wildlife presenter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUOgVsHViIk
Meet the Entomologists at the Cockrell Butterfly Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=causIzD5Z-o
How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovation http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-biomimicry-is-inspiring-human-innovation-17924040/?no-ist
Doctor Buggs: Locomotion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iDs_Iykgng
Wonderville: Entomology http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/entomology
Leggy! Entomology Careers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqDBQOSTCk0
About Bioscience: Entomologist http://www.aboutbioscience.org/careers/entomologist
Forensic Entomology - The Crime Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVKISCmjTQ
Entomology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-y6PLtY5s