Coraline Lesson Plan

What is protective coloration? Where does Coraline learn about it? How does she use it? Is she successful?

Coraline learns about protective coloration while watching a natural history program on television. Protective coloration is when animals, birds, and insects disguise themselves as something else to escape harm. For example, insects that look like twigs and can blend into trees to escape predators. Coraline uses protective coloration as part of her plan to trap the other mother's right hand. Using her dolls, Coraline creates an innocuous-looking picnic, placing the black key at the center, and pretends she doesn't notice the hand stalking nearby. When the hand...