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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students learn what a keystone species is, and then they draw a simple food chain to see why tiger sharks are considered a keystone species in Shark Bay. They create public education brochures describing why this would be such a significant discovery. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explain the similarities and differences between the life cycle of butterflies and frogs by integrating the second grade science, mathematics, and language arts curriculum. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 9th
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Students explore the vital importance of sharks from a broad, worldwide perspective and power the media has had in coloring our perspectives of this apex predator. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the fossil remains of ancient sea creatures. They create casts of fossils and identify how sea fossils are formed and consider what type of information fossils can give to scientists. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students name and locate the oceans on a world map. They compare and contrast the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and identify the types of fish that live in both. They examine the different types of whales and life in a coral reef. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students complete a unit on the oceans of the world. They explore various websites, compare/contrast ocean mammals and fish, identify coral reefs on a map, label the oceans on a world map, define ocean conservation vocabulary, and list ways the oceans help us. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students discover, through lecture and discussion, the similarities and differences between fish and whales. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students engage in a series of related activities focusing on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper." After reading each chapter, they create new titles and hone their summarizing skills. Among other projects contained in this lesson, students make wanted posters for gang members and write "trading places" stories by selecting a famous person and assuming his/her identity. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students are asked to agree or disagree with each of the statements below. This sets a purpose for reading; as they read, they confirm their assumptions or learn something new. Stingrays are extremely dangerous animals. Stingrays often swim away when people are nearby. A stingray moves by flapping its "wings." Stingrays are often found in very shallow ocean waters. 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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