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Color the Nouns: Octopus
An octopus has eight arms—but how many nouns can your learners find on this learning exercise? A color-by-grammar learning exercise unveils a smiling octopus when scholars color all nouns green.
NOAA
Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Life is Weird!
A pool of brine in the deep sea can be up to four times as salty as the surrounding sea water. The deep sea ecosystem relies on chemosynthesis and the organisms that live there are often strange to us. The lesson focuses on researching...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Alligator
Who knew an alligator could have so many different looks? For this activity, youngsters choose a set of eyes out of eight choices and cut and paste them onto an alligator. They color their creatures after the eyes have been attached.
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Eight Arms & Counting
Learners identify the unique characteristics of the octopus. Then they fashion a model of this unique sea creature. Students also imaginatively decorate their model octopus. Finally, they research the different functions of the octopus's...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Multinational Corporations
The octopus is a commonly used symbol in political cartoons. Help your scholars examine why it has been used in this way throughout history. Three cartoons depict different uses of the octopus. Background information helps gives context...
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Where the Octopus Lives
In this letter O worksheet, learners color a large picture of an octopus. Students analyze two pictures of habitats and circle the one that shows where an octopus would live. Learners trace and practice upper and lower case letter Oo.
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Octopus Alphabet Activity
For this octopus activity worksheet, learners examine 10 octopus-related terms and then put those terms into alphabetical order.
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Octopus Crossword
In this octopus crossword puzzle activity, students use the 10 clues and the terms in the word bank to help them correctly complete the word puzzle.
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Octopus Vocabulary
In this octopus worksheet, students read 10 definitions pertaining to the octopus and match them with the corresponding words.
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Octopus Project: Ceramics
Kids make an octopus out of clay. They practice their sculpting and modeling skills such as pinch pot and slurry technique while sculpting an octopus.
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Octopus Lesson Plan
Children explore the life of an octopus. They listen to a story, answer prediction questions and share their prior knowledge of animals. Young scholars observe the defense mechanism of the octopus. They create an imaginary defense...
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O is for Octopus
In this handwriting practice worksheet, students trace and practice writing the letter 'O' both in upper and lower case letters. They also identify the object illustrated and trace and write the term octopus as shown.
Starfall
Oo is for Octopus
Oodles of fun and opportunities for learning are overwhelming in this Letter O activity series, which features printing practice for letters and numbers, connect the docts, and lots of cute octopi for your learners to color.
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Octopus Lesson Plan
Students read about the octopus and create an octopus out of ink and a deflated balloon. In this octopus lesson plan, students discuss the different defense mechanisms of the octopus and use the ink to demonstrate what happens if the...
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Make an Octopus
In this making an octopus worksheet, students follow 5 steps to make an octopus. Extra materials are needed to complete the product. Students may use the finished product for various classroom activities.
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Preschool Coloring Pages - Octopus
In this preschool coloring page worksheet, students use crayons or markers to color a blackline master sheet of an octopus.
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Fish, Fish: Teaching K Students About Things That Live in the Sea
Students participate in activities designed to help them connect the words to the animals they are studying. Octopus is reinforced through playing a game, "Octopus Tag." Students play a cooperation game of passing bean bags from student...
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Octopus Legs
Students have oceans of fun transforming a wienie into an octopus they can eat! After counting, cutting halves and fourths, observing steam and the effects of heat, they mix colors as they create a yummy dipping sauce from mustard and...
Other
Octopus of California
Twenty great pictures of octopi from California. This site also offers up close pictures of invertebrates, squids, and tidepools.
Other
The Cephalopod Page: What Behavior Can We Expect of Octopuses?
The navigation and spatial skills, tool use, play, and personalities of octopuses are covered in the studies discussed in this article.
Other
Dalhousie University: Octopus Dofleini
Provides an overview of the life of a giant octopus. Has a great picture.
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Octopus Vulgaris
Provides an overview of the life of the octopus vulgaris. Also has a great picture of the octopus vulgaris.
