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- 7th - 8th
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Students describe major features of cold seep communities, and list at least five organisms typical of these communities. They infer probable trophic relationships among organisms typical of cold-seep communities. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students experiment with the use of Cuisenaire Rods, and explore their effectiveness in different classroom activities. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast invasive, alien and native species. They research three problems that might be associated with invasive species. They describe how some invasive species came to be invasive and discuss what can be done about them. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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students explore the important scientific concepts, as well as other important topics surrounding fish morphology, their defense strategies, general fish characteristics, and their ecosystems. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students compare and contrast the coelacanth, a living fossil, with a moray eel and a bull shark. They complete a Fish Anatomy worksheet while researching the skeleton, body coverings and buoyancy of each fish. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students continue their examination of the state of Connecticut. After taking a field trip, they identify the types of birds, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates who make their home in the salt marshes. In groups, they identify the types of organisms that cannot live or function without the presence of another organism. They research ways humans are destroying the marshland and compare aerial photographs and topographical maps. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students perform a play about the Amazon Rain Forest. They practice assigned parts and sing a song about the Rain Forest. They create costumes for the characters and discuss the role each character plays. They perform the play and read information on mammals described in the play. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students identify and work to eliminate electrical safety hazards in the home. They identify items that use electricity. Students use a fishing game that allows students to cut pictures of items from magazine; glue the items on the 3" x 6" cut-outs of eels, and then "catch" the electric eels. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students view the website More Fish that has 15 small photographs, which can be enlarged by clicking each one. This Web site presents underwater photographs taken by Dr. Steven Herf while he was scuba diving in the Caribbean Sea. The site also has pages showing eels, plantlife, angelfish, and parrotfish. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students view vinegar eels under a microscope at different magnifications. They use a DigiScope with the camera attachment in place of the eyepiece. Students count the number of thrashing movements in 10 seconds. They repeat this three times and compute the average number of thrashes. Students describe the muscles in the vinegar eels. They create a video of vinegar eel movement. Full Review »