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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 9th
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Students observe swimming and resting patterns of aquarium fish to determine how different parts of the habitat are used. Different pairs of students should compare their results after several days to look for daily patterns. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students visit the North Carolina Aquariums website and gather the information requested to complete a worksheet. They use this information to write a story about their imaginary trip. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students create aquariums or terrariums to explain how creatures depend on living and nonliving things. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students take a field trip to a local pond and collect samples of water and organisms to take back to the classroom. They design and set up a pond aquarium in the classroom. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students prepare for a trip to an aquarium by identifying otters, their body parts and behaviors as they read "Pup's Supper", do an otter pantomime and make a puppet. After their field trip, they complete a Venn Diagram of Otter behaviors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students discuss the work "Filter." They list types of filters they know about and look at both clean and used filters. Students speculate on how a filter might be important to a fish. They listen to the instructor tell them about aquarium filtration and the importance of mechanically, chemically and biologically cleaning their fish tank. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 12th
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Students visit the Tetra-fish web site. They visit a virtual aquarium. Students select their own aquarium and tank size. They select up to twelve different types of tropical fish and read information about their virtual aquarium. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students work in pairs to set up a terrarium and aquarium and observe them over a period of time before researching the Little Tennessee Watershed. After researching, students begin a pollution study on their ecosystems. Students complete the project with a PowerPoint presentation that shows their findings and connects their experiment with the pollution problems in the watershed. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students research aquariums in preparation to design and build a model of their own public aquarium for their local community. They use the internet to access information about public aquariums. Full Review »
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