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- 1st - 3rd
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Students interact with "The Magic School Bus" through ocean tours. They conduct experiments, create multimedia reports and play games. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students compete in a national art contest. They create art in which spreads the message of conservation and protection of the environment. They label parts of fish and their functions and create a simple aquatic food chain. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students use materials found at a resource table to design simple devices that will house instruments to take water samples from a tub of water. They design 3 instruments, each varying in density so that one will float, one will hover and one will sink. The work in teams and each member contributes to the design. After experimentation, they share designs with the rest of class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine the difference between sea mammals and other ocean organisms. They also note the similarities between land and sea mammals. They participate in assembling a chart that displays the differences between mammals and fish. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students participate in a variety of station activities as they explore the adaptations that deep-sea fish have developed in order to survive the harsh conditions found within the deep-sea environment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the role played by sharks in the marine food chain. They conduct a scavenger hunt collecting items that have actually been removed from the stomachs of sharks, and create a display that includes the items and newspaper articles about sharks. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students compare and contrast the coelacanth, a living fossil, with a moray eel and a bull shark. They complete a Fish Anatomy worksheet while researching the skeleton, body coverings and buoyancy of each fish. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate salmon fry. They identify where salmon fry come from and how they obtain food. They investigate how fish swim in the water and how they rise and fall. They create models of salmon fry and test how air helps the salmon fry float in water and how they camouflage themselves. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students investigate the concept of salmon spawning. They discuss why salmon swim in an upstream direction. Students simulate the swimming upstream process and continue the discussion of the importance of salmon returning to the same upstream location each season. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine characteristics of salmon fry and other characteristics used to classify organisms in biology. Students practice classifying aquatic and land organisms in an activity with 10 pictures of each, conduct a buoyancy experiment, examine aquatic life found in a pond sample, and explore the impact of runoff. Full Review »
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