Fish Lesson Plans

Students role play the role of new employees in a pet shop. They offer advice to customers and answer their questions about pets. Using the internet, they identify the steps in establishing a new fish aquarium and summarize the information in a handbook.

Students conduct an experiment to control the breeding of Japanese Medaka fish. They collect the fertilized eggs, and daily view and record the fish's embryological development to compare the stages to human development.

Students examine fish poster and discuss adaptations of fish by comparing and contrasting fish from poster. They write in journals naming adaptations of fish and explaining how it helps their survival.

This lesson has learners listen to The Rainbow Fish and select the correct meaning of the story from three examples presented by the teacher. They use a paper sclae to write three descriptive words about themselves.

Students use tables of fish collection data to draw conclusions about where fish live in the Hudson Estuary. Given available data they interpret organized observations and measurements and recognize simple patterns, sequences, and relationships in the fish communities. Students explore the environmental factors that influence where fish live and determine the makeup of their communities.

This lesson has students explore the attributes of fish. In this fish lesson, students gather and share information about fish. This lesson has students create PowerPoint presentations featuring fish and share them with their classmates.

This lesson has learners draw pictures of fish in their science journals with the right body part labels. In this fish lesson plan, learners participate in a discussion about fish and their adaptations while looking at a labeled poster of fish, and then draw fish on their own.

Students make an aquarium for fish out of construction paper. They count the number of fish in their aquarium, as well as, recognize the colors of their fish.

In this lesson 4th graders research a Florida fish to determine its length. They display this information on two index cards, which are cut to the shape of the head and the tail and attached to a string that they measure and cut to the correct length of the fish.

In this lesson learners use a globe to answer questions such as which continent they live in and the country in which they live. They identify at least two bodies of water near their state and two foreign countries. In groups, they complete a worksheet in which they determine the native waters of different species of fish.