Introduce animal adaptation and behaviour vocabulary with a word wall featuring photographs and definitions of adaptation-related words.
Need Help Teaching Animal Behaviours and Survival Adaptations?
Do you need a good way to help your students learn more about how animals adapt to their surroundings to survive? You should definitely put up a classroom word wall! A word wall can be a helpful tool that allows students to see, read, and learn vocabulary words with the help of visual aids. This year, we encourage you to try a word wall to improve your students’ scientific vocabulary.
Adaptations and Animal Behaviour Word List
This photo-and-definition word wall display includes 18 printable word wall cards, each including an adaptation-related vocabulary term, its definition, and an image to help students visualise the word’s meaning. The words included in this resource download are:
| acquired trait | adaptation | behavioural adaptation |
| camouflage | characteristic | diurnal |
| habitat | hibernation | inherited trait |
| instinct | migration | mimicry |
| nocturnal | offspring | physiological adaptation |
| structural adaptation | torpor | crepuscular |
Ways to Use Your Animal Adaptations Vocabulary Display
While it may seem like word walls are just there to look pretty, they’re not! Word walls can be used in various ways to help your students develop their vocabulary skills. Here are a few ways to use a word wall in the classroom.
- Word Wall Scavenger Hunt: Provide students with clues related to the science vocabulary. Have students search for the words on the word wall.
- Word Wall Pictionary: Divide the class into teams. One student from each team draws a science vocabulary word from the word wall, and their team tries to guess the word based on the drawing.
- Vocabulary Charades: Have students act out science vocabulary words without speaking. Classmates try to guess the word based on their actions.
Download and Display Your Science Vocabulary Words
You’re just a click away from your new word wall! Click the dropdown arrow on the download button to download the printable PDF file or editable Google Slides resource. Print, cut, and start building those vocabulary skills
This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a Teach Starter Collaborator.
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