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Activity
NOAA

Motion from the Ocean

For Students 3rd - 5th
Create a fish mobile using cardboard and string to hang in the classroom while studying ocean life. Each printable requires pupils to cut out two of the same fish to create consistency on the front and back.
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PPT
Biology Junction

Protists: The World of Protists

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
More than 200,000 species of protists exist, living on land and in water around the planet. Scholars view the diversity of protists in an interesting presentation. It divides protists into three groups: animal-like protists, plant-like...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

Global Grocery

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
A walk through the grocery store is like a walk around the world. An interactive activity shows popular grocery items and where the ingredients originate. Perfect as a remote learning resource, the lesson connects groceries to the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plant Explorers

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate how plants take in water, nutrients, and light. They create artwork showing how plants survive in different environments.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

History of the Current

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students, in groups, collect information from the Internet about historical events surrounding the effects of the Gulf Stream current on ship travel. They compile a chart and answer assessment questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainbow Fish Drawing

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the book, RAINBOW FISH and view a few pictures of different types of fish. They discuss putting certain shapes together make up objects and talk about and demonstrate straight and wavy lines, thick and thin lines....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Seahorse Challenge

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this seahorse facts worksheet, students respond to 9 multiple choice questions that require them to exhibit what they know about seahorses.
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PPT
Curated OER

Protists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
With this collection of slides, future biologists get to view photographs of protozoans from different phyla. Interspersed with the photos are bullet-style notes listing characteristics of each group. Unfortunately, most of the pictures...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Food chains and webs

For Students 1st - 3rd
Here is an extremely simplistic look at food chains and webs. It depicts three different food chains, each containing a plant, plant eater, and meat-eater. Learners fill in the missing part of each chain by using the images provided at...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Changing Coral Reef

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students record changes in the composition of a coral reef.  In this Coral Reef lesson, students recognize the needs of Coral Reef species to survive.  Students chart changes in population over time. Students write an essay about factors...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tiny Dragons of the Sea

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading for information worksheet, students apply comprehension and vocabulary usage skills. In this matching and short answer worksheet, students answer fifteen question.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Controls and Variables

For Students 8th - 12th
In this scientific methods worksheet, students identify the control group, independent variables, and dependent variables in 4 different experiment descriptions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coral Reef Community

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the coral reef. In this food chain activity, students study the plants and animals of the coral reef and how they each play a role in that ecosystem. They participate in a class play to demonstrate the types of animals...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Web Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explain the main concepts of food webs and food chains. They describe the role of animals, plants, and other organisms in cycling energy and matter through a food web by creating mobiles. Lesson contains adaptations for all levels.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fish Themed Silk Painting

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students sketch an underwater scene that includes a fish and its surroundings. They trace a circular template the size of their silk hoop, Students follow directions to reproduce their drawings with resist material onto the silk. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water Density and Salinity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers observe how different water densities control the depth at which different water masses occur. They explain one fact that they comprehend about salt water. Students comprehend that temperature and salinity affect the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taha Moana - The Sea

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discuss language, meanings and ideas in a range of texts related to the sea. They write instructions, explanations, arguments and factual accounts, express personal viewpoints on topics related to the sea.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Salinity Lab

For Students 8th - 10th
In this salinity worksheet, students simulate conditions of salt and fresh water mixing and observe the various densities of these solutions based on their salinity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting Food

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete activities to learn about the ocean food web. In this ocean life lesson, students discuss how the tides affect feeding, learn about filter feeders, grazers, predators, and scavengers. Students then group the animals...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting Food

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore seashore ecosystems.  In this marine animal biology lesson plan, students sort photographs of various sea creatures according to their eating habits and discuss each animal's identifiable traits.  Students draw and label...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Anansi and The Tug O' War

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete activities with the story Anansi and the Tug O' War. In this literature lesson plan, students listen to a story, answer comprehension questions, and complete three worksheets. They discuss facial expressions and try to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Anansi and the Tug O' War

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read the book Anansi and the Tug O' War. In this folktale lesson, students read the book and discuss the sequence of events from the text. Students create a written response to the story, focusing on their favorite part.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seaworthy Presentations

For Teachers 1st
First graders research ocean animals and plants on the web.  In this ocean habitat lesson, 1st graders prepare a multimedia presentation.  Students will work on their presentations in pairs and every group should have its own animals or...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theater Game: "The Good, the Bad, and the Bountiful"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students play a game to demonstrate the detrimental effects of an algal bloom on the environment. In this microorganism lesson plan, students discuss microbes and algae. They dramatize the effects of an algal bloom using a role-playing...

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