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Marine Biology Lesson Plans
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Fifth graders explore the lives and work of Galileo, Percy Julian, Linnaeua,and Ernest Just in this four lessons unit. The observations are made through the analysis of "fanny packs" belonging to these scientists.
Learners research and they role-play the behavior of plants and animals in a salt marsh habitat as the tides change.
Learners watch a slide show presentation of a Coral Reef and discuss its inhabitants. They make a coral reef cake demonstrating the layers and components using different foods.
Students observe the advantages of camouflage. They design a well camouflaged fish of their own.
Learners begin the lesson by researching the history of City Point, Connecticut. Using a map, they color areas they were asked to find and discuss why the areas are important to the community. As a class, they are shown recent slides of City Point and in groups compare them with older photographs. They end the lesson by discovering how tides are generated and affected by the moon.
Students use the Internet to research the history of Long Island Sound. In groups, they identify the sources of point and nonpoint pollution and how humans are impacting the area. After watching a video, they discuss the role of oystering in the community and take a field trip to the Sound. To end the lesson, they participate in a town meeting to share their findings and results.
Students examine the effect of limiting factors, especially when it comes to human beings. They examine data from the Gulf of Maine area.
Students explain the different types of marine coasts and where they are located in the United States and its territories. They explain and identify some of the life forms that inhabit different marine coastal regions.
Students play a question-asking game to investigate careers relating to marine and aquatic science, then conduct Internet research to further investigate the career of their choice.
Students study the different types of coastlines and their territories. For this marine coasts lesson students identify life forms that are in the coastal regions.
