Animal Camouflage Diorama Project

We are starting a new reading unit that is all about animals and camouflage! Additionally, most of the stories will be expository text. Expository text gives information or explains something. It uses facts about real events or people. It presents information in a clear way, and gives events in the order in which they happen. We will be starting a writing and research project. Each student will choose an animal to learn about, research, and write about. This will be done in the classroom. At home we would like each student to make their own diorama about their animal and its habitat. After your child chooses an animal, please help him/her prepare a simple diorama.
1. Choose an animal that uses camouflage.
2. Get to know your animal by doing research on the internet or in library books.
3. You will find out what the animal looks like, where it lives, what it eats, and how and why it uses camouflage.
4. Use a box (shoebox works well) to create a diorama demonstrating animal camouflage. It should represent the animal and its surroundings, including how it uses camouflage. The following link is an excellent source for instructions: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Diorama

The dioramas are due back at school on February 1st. We will attach the written project done here at school to the at home diorama project and put them on display.  Please let me know if there is anything I can send home (paper, shoe box, modeling clay) to help with the project. Have fun and use your emagination. Students will only be graded on the at school writting portion of this project based on a rubric and not on the at home diorama.
 Thank you!

Sample projects from last year....