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Crabs Lesson Plans
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Students read a story and write math problems. In this reading and math comprehension lesson, students preview and read the book "One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab". Students predict ways to get a sum of 11, write math equations and draw pictures. Students make their own "One is a Snail" books.
Students use muscular strength and endurance to participate in physical activities. They walk across the gym in a crab like position while balancing an object on their back. Students perform variations of the activity.
Students explore the habitats of hermit crabs. In this crustacean lesson, students discover what animals need to survive. Working with live hermit crabs, students explore how hermit crabs have adapted to their habitats.
3rd graders examine word choice and using descriptive words. They listen to the book "A House for Hermit Crab" by Eric Carle, identify the descriptive words in the story, and create a word web for the word "good" in small groups.
5th graders identify the external parts of a blue crab. In this ocean life lesson, 5th graders read Rudyard Kipling's The Crab that Played with the Sea and identify characters and important phrases from the story. 5th graders use an interactive website to identify the external body parts of a blue crab.
Learners view a jar of clean and a jar of muddy water. They discuss ways a river or Bay can become muddy. Learners discuss problems with muddy water for the fish, clams, and oysters. Learners perform a play, narrated by the teacher. They create a paper collage of a blue crab in an eelgrass environment.
Learners play a game about the life cycle of a blue crab in order to witness the causes of changes in the crab population and discuss what a resource manager could do to keep a stable crab population. Learners then create a game titled "The Life of a Fisherman".
In this lesson 1st graders identify text that uses sequence or other logical order. They identify and interpret how different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places. In this lesson 1st graders also explore and discuss both the common elements of all good homes and the reasons that people and animals live in so many different types of homes.
Students investigate where a hermit crab lives, what it eats, and the hermit crab lifecycle. They discuss and examine pictures of hermit crabs, listen to the book "Pagoo," and ask and answer questions about the book.
Students engage in a lesson on hermit crabs. In a class discussion, they establish what they already know about hermit crabs, and what they would like to know about hermit crabs. Students view photographs of hermit crabs, and of other crustaceans and talk about the differences they see. An art activity culminates this lesson.
