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Sea Connections
Students, after locating different marine habitats on a globe, play a card game about ecosystems, food webs and organisms.
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All About Me-I'm My Own Research Project
Third graders see how to do a research project. They understnad how to categorize information about themselves and relate it to information on sea animals for a future research project. This lesson fits in nicely with any unit on animals.
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Ocean Life
Students explore the types of plants and animals that can be found in the ocean. They browse books and/or magazines to identify and gain a knowledge base of plant and animal life found in the ocean, then create a collage.
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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...
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Predator/Prey Activity: Fish Feeding, Environments, and General Behavior
Students explore concepts of environment and survival among different marine life, focusing on the ocean environment.
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ARTQUARIUM
Middle schoolers identify different underwater creatures, explain the importance of recycling in the community, plan preliminary sketches on paper, and construct and sculpt with chosen materials to create creature in paper mache.
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Form and Function in the Marine Environment
Students study the relationship of form and function in the marine environment.
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What Ocean Animals Do Worksheet
In this ocean animals worksheet, students draw lines to match pictures of ocean animals to their descriptions, 6 total. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Water Striders
Students analyze water strider behavior. In this water strider activity, students study the movement and feeding behavior of water striders. Students catch water striders and then generate scientific observations.
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Exploring Marine Objects
Students identify the sources of water on Earth. For this life science lesson, students list the different plants and animals that live in the ocean. They explore marine objects in the lab and draw them.
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Pipeline to the Coral Reefs
Students discuss the relationship of density to stratification. In this marine science instructional activity, students create a model of upwelling events using cold and warm water. They discuss how water phenomena affect coral reefs.
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Harmful Algal Blooms in Full Bloom
Learners calculate the total percentage of samples from the data on the graphs. In this marine science lesson, students analyze the concentration levels over a period of time. They suggest ways to lessen the effect of these blooms.
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The Good, the Bad and the Nasty Tasting
Students examine the effect of chemicals from marine plants or animals on predator's preferences. In this ecology lesson, students conduct taste tests and collect necessary data. They write their conclusion after analyzing experimental...
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The Dead Zone: A Marine Horror Story
Students graph dissolved oxygen versus depth using data taken from NECOP Program. In this marine science lesson plan, students explain the causes of hypoxia. They recommend possible solutions to this problem.
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Light Up the Deep Sea
Students simulate bioluminescence in the marine environment. In this marine science instructional activity, students investigate how animals in the deep ocean communicate with each other. They explain the function of bioluminescence...
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Amphipods
Learners identify organisms that live at the bottom of the body of water. In this biology lesson plan, students evaluate the effects of pollution to amphipods population. They examine collected data and create a bar graph comparing them.
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Seafood: For the Love of Fish
Learners role play a scenario specific to decision making in seafood management and conservation. In this marine science lesson plan, students estimate seafood consumption in their state. They recommend new regulations for better fishery...
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Marine Biology Lesson on Understanding the Dynamics of the Reef Ecosystem
Students compare data from a healty and unhealthy reef ecosystem. In this marine biology activity, students identify which sample is stressed. They formulate a hypothesis on why the reef is stressed and support their hypothesis with...
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves 2009: Out of Darkness
Young scholars analyze the three models on the origin of troglobitic fauna. In this life science lesson, students also consider how the Zonation model explains the fauna's origin. They also use the Internet to research solutional and...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum
Students investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Students design their own sea...
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Action at Plate Boundaries
Learners diagram the spreading of the ocean floor. In this earth science lesson plan, students read an article on plate boundaries of the ocean. Learners are expected to diagram the oceanic convergent boundary, and give a written...
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Marine Animal Life Cycles
Fourth graders identify the life cycle of a crab and other marine animals. In this marine life lesson, 4th graders complete a crab puppet activity, explore crab moulting, research the life cycle stages of a crab, and identify crab...
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The Intertidal Zone: Tides and How Creatures Survive
Students study the properties of ocean water and tides and learn about animals that live in intertidal zones. In this intertidal zone lesson, students participate in classroom stations to learn about fresh water and salt water, cold...
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Exploring Life in the Coral Reef
Students study life forms in coral reefs. In this ocean life lesson, students study life in coral reefs as they create a coral reef sculpture.