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Lesson 1:

Objective:Develop a class anchor model to show how

butterflies survive in their environment

Student Learning:
Butterflies have survived on Earth for millions
of years

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What do you notice about the animal
in this picture?

●It has a shell on its body and
scales on its legs.

●It looks like it has a unicorn horn
on its back.

●It looks like a rhinoceros, but it
looks different from the ones I have
seen at the zoo.

Rhinoceros Woodcut and Photograph

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Rhinoceros Photo

What does seeing this picture
make you think about the first
picture?

●I think this picture looks more
like a real rhinoceros than the
first one.

●There are a lot of details in the
first picture, but they don’t show
what a rhinoceros actually looks
like.

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Both pictures are meant to depict a rhinoceros. Compare
the two images more closely.

What is similar about the images? What is different?

●Both images show a rhinoceros.

●Both rhinoceroses have four legs and two ears.

●Both pictures show a rhinoceros with two horns, but they
are not in the same place.

●The rhinoceros’s skin looks more scaly and rougher in
the first picture than it does in the second picture.

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What might explain the differences between the two pictures?
●They might be different because one is a drawing and the other is a photograph

●Maybe they show two different kinds of rhinoceros.

●Maybe the person who drew the rhinoceros picture was not looking at a real
rhinoceros.

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The first picture shows a woodcut created by an artist named Albrecht Durer. Durer had
never seen a rhinoceros, but he created the woodcut based on a letter he received that
included a sketch of a rhinoceros.

A woodcut is made when an artist carves a picture into the surface of a block of wood.
Ink is applied to the raised surface of the wood block and the surface is pressed against
a piece of paper to create the image on the paper.

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Hundreds of years ago many people who had never seen a rhinoceros saw prints made
by using Durer's woodcut and thought that the prints showed an accurate representation
of the animal.

What do you think it's problematic about people believing that Durer's woodcut
showed an accurate representation of the Rhinoceros?
●People thought this is was a rhinoceros looks like, but it wasn't.

●People didn't know what a rhinoceros actually looks like.

Keep the importance of accurate representation in mind as you participate in the rest of
this lesson.