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260
3rd - 5th
5.0
Portable Document FormatMystery Fish Poetry Activity

This lesson has students research fish and fish adaptations. They conduct research on two fish, compare/contrast the two fish using a Venn diagram, and create a fish diamante poem.

 

207
2nd - 5th
5.0
Portable Document FormatGo Fish

Students explore methods to estimate animal population. In this ecology and proportions math lesson, students participate in a simulation of catching and tagging fish in order to estimate the fish population. Students scoop and count goldfish crackers, record data, and use formulas to determine a whole population based on their sample.

 

WebsiteWhere Oh Where Have All the Fish Gone? Oh Where Oh Where Can They Be?

In this lesson students participate in an activity in which plain and peanut M&M's are used to represent a community of fish. They role-play different scenarios that depict fishing practices by eating or discarding certain M&M's.

 

175
1st - 3rd
4.0
Portable Document FormatFishing Fun

Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Fishing Fun. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.

 

42
3rd - 5th
4.0
WebsiteFantastic Fishing Contest

Learners create a fish by thinking of a name for it, writing some facts about it, and telling a story explaining how they caught it. They enter their creations into a contest for funniest fish, scariest fish, realistic fish, and other categories.

 

6
3rd - 5th
4.5
Portable Document FormatA Fish Tale

In this lesson learners conduct an experiment. In this fish lesson, learners discover how fish cells respond to fresh and salty water and if temperature effect the movement of a fish's gills. In this lesson learners also identify the characteristics of a fish.

 

WebsiteThe New England Fishing Industry:Sea Changes in a Community

Students research the fishing industry and the need for regulation. In this economics lesson, students analyze the topography of New England and analyze primary source documents related to the fishing industry to write a found poem. Students research and debate whether or not legislation to restrict fishing should be initiated.

 

145
6th - 12th
5.0
WebsiteFishing for Solutions

This lesson has students investigate the many ecological and economic issues related to over fishing the world's marine resources. Working in committees, students research the related topics of equipment and fishing techniques.

 

43
6th - 12th
5.0
WebsiteFish Stories

In this lesson students conduct background research about a Pacific Rim country to develop a premise for a documentary film about the fate of traditional fishing industries in the area.

 

246
K - 1st
5.0
Portable Document FormatFishing for Compliments

This lesson has learners recognize that sentences contain individual words. They fish for a word with a teacher created pole and when a word is caught, it is shown and read to the class. In addition, they use the word in a sentence as a compliment.