Marlin Lesson Plans

This lesson has students examine the billfish as a predator in the ocean. In this ocean, creatures, and tides lesson, students view video clips and discuss the sea creatures and scientists in the videos. This lesson has students create their own videos. students experiment to learn about converging currents.

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.

4th graders study the concept of predator/prey by researching specific examples of birds. They participate in a concept map/webbing activity to determine different characteristics of birds. They engage in a class discussion about predators and prey among birds.

Students react to a series of statements about the World Series, then read a news article about the Chicago White Sox winning the 2005 World Series. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news report and participate in a class discussion. Lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

Students research to find out if Major League Baseball players are overpaid, and whether by overpaying them, owners are acting outside their own self-interest.

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.

Students study the behavior or ocean animals called  billfish. In this life science lesson, students create their own documentary about a local animal. They share their videos with the entire school.

Students play agame based on Finding NEMO. They act as characters and play various roles wehre they chase, flee, and dodge.

6th graders review the various immigrant groups who settled in the Newhallville neighborhood. In groups, they compare the boundaries of the neighborhood in the past and today. Using the internet, they research the types of industries in the area and how they have affected New Haven and its properity. To end the lesson, they guess on what the town might look like in 2040.

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.