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Water: The Math Link

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Make a splash with a math skills resource! Starring characters from the children's story Mystery of the Muddled Marsh, several worksheets create interdisciplinary connections between science, language arts, and math. They cover a wide...
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Explorit's Wetlands Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this wetlands activity, students complete a 31 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about marshes and wetlands.
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Making Marsh Connections

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the interdependence among the plants and animals in natural communities.
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Sand Shakes & Mud Pies: Investigating Sediment

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Take a field trip to a location where water and land meet to study patterns of sediment organization in wet habitats: river or ocean beaches, sand dunes, tidal marshes, the edge of a pond, or a woodland stream. Small groups collect pairs...
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Annual Wetland Plant Diversity Survey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers locate an area of marsh and, by measuring the total number of individual plants in a sample area, determine whether purple loosestrife population density is correlated to the total plant diversity of the community. They...
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All Hands on Deck: A Harbor Education Program

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build a model of an estuary. In this wetland lesson, students build a model estuary with a paint tray and modeling clay. They use the model to illustrate the impact of non-point pollution on the watershed.
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Marvelous Marshes of the Chesapeake

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify sources of salt water and fresh water that enter the Chesapeake Bay. They build a model watershed and describe how runoff enters the Bay.
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Salt Marsh Plants and Animals

For Students 4th - 5th
In this salt march plant and animals learning exercise, students read descriptions of animals, then match each to its picture. Students then read about tidal animals and choose which animals in picture are most likely to be in a salt...
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A Marsh-ian Restaurant

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the marshland habitat. In this habitats lesson, 2nd graders view a video on marshlands and identify the plants and animals that live there. Students discuss the characteristics of the marshland habitat and the...
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Susan Marsh- Student A and Student B

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL conversation starter worksheet, students collaborate with a partner, each person filling in the blanks in an identical biography. Students compare their results and talk about them.
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Create a Display

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify mollusks, create a display, research a particular species, and present their findings to the class. They collect and bring in a shell of choice from their local beach. Then, students label his or her shell with the...
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Kayla Vocab Summer2 Word Search

For Students 9th - 11th
In this language arts worksheet, students locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to literature. There are twelve words/phrases located in the puzzle.
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The Effect of Tides & Elevation on Wetland Plant Communities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils comprehend how tides can impact shoreline plant communities through the study of a freshwater tidal marsh. They use actual tidal data to show that tidal ranges differ among geographic locations, even those relatively close...
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Wetlands and Saltmarshes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify the different functions of a wetland system and why the system is important to the St. Mary's River ecosystem and the environment. They play a migration game and write a journal about the salt marsh periwinkle and how...
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Water: Post-Assessment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Very simply, the science class will discuss what they have learned during The Science of Water unit and take a multiple-choice post-assessment quiz. A few other closing activities are suggested for you to choose from, such as having...
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Sea Level and the Terrapin

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students study the habitat of the terrapin. In this terrapin lesson plan, students create a diorama of the habitat of the terrapin. Students also simulate how it would look if people moved into the area and how predators can threaten...
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Brine Shrimp Survival

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop an understanding of how growth and survival of an organism depends on physical conditions. They design an artificial environment in which brine shrimp can thrive. Students determine the optimum salinity for hatching of...
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Oysters Are Habit Forming!

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine the relationships within a salt marsh habitat. In this habitat lesson, students examine the various kinds of symbiotic relationships in a salt marsh habitat.
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Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners perform an experiment to test the quality of the water in a marsh.
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Ecosystem Food Web Mural

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a food web mural about an ecosystem of the freshwater marsh. For this food web lesson plan, students write about the organisms and how each one depends on another.
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A Tail to Tell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe populations of Lumbriculus to discover some of the adaptations that allow them to live successfully along the shores of ponds and marshes. They also design and perform experiments to test proposed hypotheses for these...
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Water Pollution

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate a variety of pollutants that can affect water and the plants and animals that live in the water. For this water pollution lesson plan, students identify pollutants in a bog, marsh, stream or other wetland area and...
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Landforms

For Students 7th - 9th
In this landforms worksheet, students answer 2 questions about the major land forms and types of mountains. They match 10 landforms and types of mountains with their definitions.
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Explorit's Wetlands Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this wetlands worksheet, students complete a 31 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about wetlands. Included are questions about plants, animals and geography.

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