NOAA
Invertebrates
Crabs and lobsters ... yum! The 18th installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program focuses on invertebrate marine life. After the lecture slideshow, learners conduct an activity to sample...
McGraw Hill
Arthropods
Are spiders related to crabs? Study the order of arthropods with a reading selection about animal diversity. It provides details about each class within the order, as well as vivid pictures and explanatory charts.
Curated OER
Crab Multiple Choice Activity
In this crab worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice activity pertaining to crabs. Prior knowledge of crabs is assumed.
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Crustacean Critters
Learners explore the habitats of hermit crabs. In this crustacean lesson plan, students discover what animals need to survive. Working with live hermit crabs, learners explore how hermit crabs have adapted to their habitats.
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Hermit Crabs in the Classroom
Students interact with hermit crabs in the their classroom. For this hermit crab lesson, students handle and observe hermit crabs while learning about their habitats and how to treat animals. They watch how the animals move and answer...
Curated OER
Homes for Hermit Crabs
Students discover the differences between hermit crabs and mollusks and identify their parts. After reading a story about hermit crabs, they complete an anatomy worksheet. For another activity, students fold and cut a diagram of a hermit...
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Seashell Homes
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
Curated OER
What Lives In A Shell?
Younger students focus on animals and animal habitats in the lower grades. This resource defining habitats focuses on sea animals with shells, but could be augmented to be a richer experience.
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A'ama and Pipipi Adaptations
Students explore ocean creatures. In this crustacean lesson, students determine how Black Nerite snails and Sally Light-foot crabs have adapted to their ocean habitats. Students complete diagrams and hypothesize about the necessity...
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What Do You Know About Horseshoe Crabs?
High schoolers create a learning tool based on information given on the assigned website. In this ocean life lesson, students read about the horseshoe crab and develop a worksheet, scavenger hunt, board game or any tool to aid learning....
Scholastic
A House for Hermit Crab
Engage young marine biologists in a reading of Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab with a fun hands-on activity. Given a set of clipart images of the different aquatic animals that appear in the book, children identify each one...
Curated OER
Crab: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "crab," write the word independently, and color the picture of the crab.
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Grandma Crab
In this crab life cycle learning exercise, students read a 1-page monologue that included details regarding the life cycle of a crab.
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Crab Word Search
In this crab word search worksheet, students locate and identify 8 crab-related words within the word search puzzle.
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Crab Crossword Puzzle
In this crab worksheet, students read ten clues that pertain to sea crabs. Students match these to vocabulary words in a box. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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Be an Artist: Hermit Crab
In this science instructional activity, 3rd graders use visual clues in a grid to complete an exact image replica. Following the original line segments in each box, students create the image of a hermit crab.
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Sea Otter Maze
In this mazes worksheet, students determine the best strategy to assist a sea otter to finding some crabs to eat through a difficult maze.
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The Crusty Fossils
Learners identify some of the different species of crabs and tell how they adapt themselves to their environment. They discuss the evolution and stages of development of the crabs. They identify the Phylum Arthropoda and the Class...
Curated OER
Spot the Differences
In this spot the difference worksheet, young scholars analyze pictures of two
different crabs to see if they can find five differences between the
two.
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Crab Lab
Pupils participate in an activity in which they observe the behavior of a crab. In groups, they label and identify the function of each main part while observing and record their behavior. They make educated guesses on why they behave...
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Hermit Crab Races
Students predict the speeds of humans and hermit crabs and investigate their predictions using ratios and formulas. AppleWorks is used for this lesson, which includes a data worksheet.
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The Search for Housing Pagurus hirsutiusculus= hermit crab
Students collect snail shells, measure and record their lengths and if they are occupied by a hermit crab. They discover if their is a size difference between occupied and unoccupied shells.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Cuban Crab Migration
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea. [4:09]
Other
Sc Dnr: Blue Crabs
An in depth look at the S.C. Blue Crab including the life cycle, mating, spawning, growth, molting, abundance, predators and much more!