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Ocean Life Zones Notes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this ocean zones learning exercise, students label the ocean diagram with the different zones. Then students write in animals that live in each of the zones and research basic information about those animals. This learning exercise...
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Curated OER

Know It All: Seals! Teaching Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students discover information about seals, including behavior and habitat. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various aspects about seals. Students create an illustration or painting of their favorite seal, and...
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Curated OER

Shark Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sharks learning exercise, learners complete 10 multiple choice questions about the Great White Shark and its physical characteristics, diet, life span, and more.
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American Museum of Natural History

Rubber Blubber Gloves

For Students 6th - 12th
Using gloves, shortening, tape, and a lot of ice, participants experience the feeling of having blubber. The experiment's eight steps follow an informative page about blubber and animals that have it.
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Virginia Department of Education

Heat Loss from a Fur-Insulated Animal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do animals adapt to weather changes? Provide your class with the ability to understand adaptations and body temperature as they participate in this hands on experiment, using fake fur and hot water. Pupils collect data and...
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Curated OER

Fish Anatomy

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Add a handy reference sheet about fish anatomy and functioning to your learners' biology or animal notebooks. Though this resource doesn't provide any practice, it makes a useful addition to any study of anatomy, biology, species, fish,...
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Water Trash

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how plastic waste affects the marine environment. They describe techniques that reduce plastic waste in this environment after examining plastic waste that accumulates in their own homes.
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Curated OER

Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create their own "never before seen" marine creatures and examine how not all creatures in the sea swim, not all have sharp teeth
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Curated OER

Seaworthy Presentations

For Teachers 1st
First graders research ocean animals and plants on the web.  In this ocean habitat lesson, 1st graders prepare a multimedia presentation.  Students will work on their presentations in pairs and every group should have its own...
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Curated OER

Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study and research marine invertebrates.  In this marine lesson plan students create an illustrated report and help complete a class exhibit. 
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Curated OER

Oddball Out: Sea Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving worksheet, pupils analyze a row of pictures of various animals to determine which creature is different from the others pictured.
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Curated OER

Boston Harbor Cruise: A Shoreline Survey

For Teachers K - 6th
The students take a harbor cruise, photograph, and draw shore line features attending to evidence of human impact/consequences, and its cost on marine/land animal habitats vegetation, weather patterns, signs of erosion, and the water...
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Curated OER

TE Lesson: Habitat Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the current technologies used in mapping resources in the marine environment. They look at remote sensing, sounding, and underwater vehicles. They examine image from the benthic habitat produced by the GIS in...
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In The Zone

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify ways that ocean animals grow, survive, reproduce, and adapt. They use computer Internet skills to acces and collect information. They create a PowerPoint presentation. They demonstrate writing skills throughthe...
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Curated OER

Ocean Word and Picture Matching

For Students K - 2nd
In this ocean-related vocabulary worksheet, students match the 5 ocean animal names to the 5 appropriate ocean life pictures.
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Curated OER

Animals Vocabulary Maze

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this animal vocabulary worksheet, students read the clue and answer it with an animal vocabulary word and then find the word in the maze. Students complete 14 questions.
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Curated OER

What Is a Pond?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify animals and plants that live in a pond. In this marine biology lesson, students create a chart of animals and plants they think they would see at the pond. Students create a "pond symphony" by imitating the sounds they...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

What's This? Breathing

For Students 6th - 12th
Crazy fact: Some animals can survive months without oxygen. An online resource describes some unique ways animals collect oxygen and even live without it for an extended time. Learners read about these special animals and use pop-up...
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Project Oceanography

Fish Shape

For Teachers 4th - 7th
A fish's size, fins, and shape can tell us a lot about them! Learners explore fish anatomy to see how species use camouflage, scales, shape, and coloration to survive. The lesson includes advanced vocabulary such as fusiform shape,...
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Curated OER

Life in the Ocean

For Students 9th - 12th
In this ocean life instructional activity, students review the animal and plant plankton and photosynthesis in the ocean. Students fill in the blank of 15 statements and then find these terms in a word search.
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Curated OER

What is an Animal?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this animal classification activity, students will review the characteristics used in classifying animals including the development of animals. Students will compare the endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm. This activity has 4 short...
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Curated OER

Seas Of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm examples of predator and prey that are featured in a video they watch.  In this investigative lesson students will research an animal from the video and explain if it is a predator or prey and how it helps...
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Curated OER

Color Me

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this color me worksheet, pupils color and illustrate a fish, a bird, a sea creature and one forest animal: bluegill, Northern cardinal, painted turtle and red fox.
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Curated OER

The Great Barracuda

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore oceanography by researching the great barracuda.  In this animal life lesson, students read several vocabulary terms dealing with ocean life and examine a drawing of a barracuda.  Students examine the many...

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