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- 4th - 6th
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Students become familiar with crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, and spiders. They distinguish between which anthropoids live on land and which live on water. The activities in this lesson are designed for pre and post visits to an aquarium. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students play a game that illustrates the delicate ecological balance between fishing, fishing regulations and fish populations. They collect data and analyze the results. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students will be able to identify the Gulf of Maine lobster as the North Atlantic lobster (Homarus Americanus), understand its reproduction cycle, growth and development, food sources and habitat in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 12th
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Students play Lobster Bingo on a provided worksheet. This game demonstrates how human activities and natral events affect lobsters by impacting their food, clean water, and shelter of the reef. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students create investigative reports about the various industries in Maine. They read the information, add material from other sources, and create a news cast and make their presentations about the industries of Maine to the rest of their class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students practice their observation skills. They select several topics in the development of Maine, such as the agricultural products, shipbuilding, or lobster industries and research pictures of that industry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students observe two chelae. They write three differences they observe in their notebooks. Students suggest a hypothesis which would explain these differences. They dissect the chela. Students analyze the lobster claw as a mechanical lever. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students collect data by playing a game that illustrates the delicate ecological balance between fishing, fishing regulations and fish populations. They graph and analyze the data and explain how economic decisions can affect the environment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students explore the short /o/ sound. They practice making the sound, noticing how their mouths move to make the sound. They recite tongue twisters with short /o/ words and practice writing the letter 'o'. Using Elkonian boxes, they practice writing 'o' words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students create an interactive presentation about lobsters. Using PowerPoint and word processing software, groups of students add information gathered in class about lobsters to the class presentation. The finished product is presented to parents and students. Full Review »