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Students examine the amazingly simple but complex characteristics of an Echinoderm. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explain how the starfish relates to its classification. They dissect the dorsal side of the starfish to expose the internal structures. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students use iMovie to produce an audio-visual introduction to the echinoderm family of sea urchins and starfish. It is multi-level in thinking and curriculum and focuses on inquiry and sustainability. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore the lives and habitats of various species of sea urchins and starfish. Information gained is displayed in a visual format utilizing video clips, narration, and the four learning styles. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students investigate a variety of sea stars at Monterey Bay Aquarium and do hands-on activities, sing starfish songs and sort sea stars by size, color and shape. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students listen to their teacher read Eric Carl's "A House for Hermit Crab." They orally answer questions throughout the story and make predictions. Students color pictures of sea animals that are attached to a large picture of a hermit crab and displayed. Full Review »
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- 1st - 8th
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Students discuss ocean waters, tides, tide pools and the animals which live in the tide pools. They practice the push and pull method with a chink of clay to create a starfish from clay. They apply texture and decorate the starfish with different media. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students are invited to tell about aquariums and marine parks they may have visited on family vacations or school field trips. They are told that they are going to visit the Web site of an aquarium that is home to turtles, fish, starfish, sharks, and more. Students convert metric units of length, capacity, and mass to solve problems. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students use appropriate scientific equipment for investigations. Then they analyze how organisms depend on other organisms and on the nonliving components of the environment. Students also use writing as a means to paraphrase/summarize what is read/heard. Finally, they write to connect knowledge within and across disciplines. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students review what they have discovered about invertebrates and cite examples. A volunteer draws a picture of a starfish on the board and labels the drawing with the word invertebrate and another draws a line dividing the starfish in half, observing the mirror image. Full Review »