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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides fascinating facts and colorful images of a variety of fish with a map of the location where they can be found.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: How Can We Classify Animals?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Welcome to Hideaway Island where five pirates need to find crews for their ships. Join in and learn about animals with backbones.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: It Took All My Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the author reminisces about catching a fish, a symbolic event in the poet's life.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Breathing

For Students 9th - 10th
Breathing shows an underwater scene and asks the students to answer the question, How do the people, fish and turtle get the oxygen they need?
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fish Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain the advantages of a fish participating in a school.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Introduction to Chondrichthyes

For Students 9th - 10th
Good introduction from Berkeley's department of paleontology, gives a brief history and the defining characteristics of the class of Chondrichthyes.
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Website
University of Washington

Fish Scope: Fish Development

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs of the stages of fish development.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Myxini Hagfishes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains quite a bit of information about hagfishes. There are pictures as well.
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Activity
University of Guelph

Fish of Canada: Introduction to Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Great site that provides all types of information on fish ranging from fish ecology to funky fish. Entails links to sites on fish evolution and morphology.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Something's Fishy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students examine the size, mass, and growth rates for three species of fish. They interpolate and extrapolate from best-fit models. Students compare the growth rates of endothermic and exothermic animals.
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Handout
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Life as a Wildlife Biologist

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site describes the skills needed for a career in Wildlife Biology. Includes link to a quiz that tests the student's knowledge of Wildlife issues.
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Website
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Chemical Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides interesting and relevant information on engineering careers by offering a look into the life of a chemical engineer. Also, site describes what type of courses a student should study to pursue an engineering career.
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Handout
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Lake Superior

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides facts, illustrations, and more about the largest Great Lake. Includes descriptions of wildlife and industry. For grades 4-8.
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Website
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about various species of fish, including the bluegill, catfish and the largemouth bass.
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Unit Plan
Next.cc

Next: Aquaponics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use these numerous activities to gain a better understanding of aquaponics, a gravity-based, closed loop system that grows both food and fish.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Classification: Minnesota Vertebrates

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson serves as an introduction to classification. The students will place animals into its proper vertebrate group according to certain characteristics that the animals have in common.
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Activity
Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Pufferfish

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an in-depth description of a pufferfish, including its behavior, appearance, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.
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Activity
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Freshwater Ecosystems

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can learn about the wide variety of plant and animal life in or around fresh water ecosystems. Click on the links to "wetlands," "Ponds and Lakes," or "Rivers and Streams" to view...
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Activity
Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Lakes and Ponds

For Students 3rd - 8th
This illustrated website features facts about lakes and ponds and their special place in geography, natural history, and as a biome.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: The Decline of North American Freshwater Fishes

For Students 9th - 10th
An article addressing the need of immediate action to repair damages of declining life in the ecosystems of North American inland bodies of water.
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Website
Other

Alabama Division of Wildlife

For Students 9th - 10th
Alabama Divion of Wildlife offers a comprehensive web site that includes, but is not limited to, game conservation.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: World's Smallest Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
This article reports on the identification of a fish that has set a new record as the world's smallest known vertebrate.
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Activity
abcteach

Abcteach: Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This link will place at your fingertips all kinds of resources for your science unit pertaining to animals such as birds, bugs, dinosaurs, endangered species, fish, mammals and reptiles.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does a Jellyfish Sting?

For Students 9th - 10th
Neosha S. Kashef details the science behind the jellyfish sting. [4:17]