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Animal Actors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars identify certain sea animals, pets, and body parts. They play Sim'n Dice (Simon Says) acting out each animal as the teacher asks. They sit in a circle on a rug and use mnemonic devices to help remember vocabulary words.
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Marine Animal Tracking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson which serves as an introduction to the ideas and implications of animal tracking. They monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students break into groups and track each other's movements as...
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Marine Animal and Plant Adaptations

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars examine nature by creating their own animals. In this animal adaptation lesson, students define scientific vocabulary terms dealing with adaptation such as sea stars, sea cucumbers and exoskeleton. Young scholars utilize...
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Ocean Acidification

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Human impacts on the environment can sometimes be difficult to measure, especially under water! An activity centered on ocean acidification gives science scholars the opportunity to examine the effects of carbon dioxide on marine life....
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Blubber Gloves

For Teachers 5th
The ways that animals adapt to their environments is quite remarkable. In this life science lesson, fifth graders take a look at some of the ways that aquatic animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic waters survive. They perform an...
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Wildlife

For Teachers 5th - 7th
First, biology pupils research land and marine habitats along the route of skipper Rich Wilson's Great American II. Then, using colored paper clips scattered across a colored paper background, they play the predator-prey game to...
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Ocean Exploration

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore whales. In this animal adaptation and whale lesson, students access prior knowledge about whales from previous lessons, then use background knowledge to predict the eating strategies of a baleen whale and a toothed...
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The Game of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students describe what it means for a marine animal or fish to be threatened or endangered after playing game simulating extinction.
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Animal Characteristics

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners investigate the characteristics of animals by creating a chart. In this animal life lesson, students create a KWL chart listing all the different animals a class can name. Learners take a field trip to a science facility to get...
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Water Trash

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explain the ways plastic waste can affect the marine environment. They are able to describe things they can do to can down on plastic waste entering the marine environment.
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Light Up the Deep Sea

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students simulate bioluminescence in the marine environment. In this marine science lesson, students investigate how animals in the deep ocean communicate with each other. They explain the function of bioluminescence among marine organisms.
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Fish Fashion 101

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore fish anatomy. In this fish anatomy and adaptation lesson, students define and identify the location of fish body parts. Students add these parts of a fish's anatomy to a life-sized fish costume worn by a student. ...
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Exploring Environments

For Teachers 2nd
Different animals live in distinct and specialized environments. Learners will discuss organisms and environments, and then create some using their dramatic art skills. They all act like animals in a marine environment. When they are...
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Ocean Expedition with Jacques Cousteau

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars role play that they are on an ocean voyage with Jacques Cousteau as they study plant, and animal species and adaptation. They write a five page journal, create artwork of the expedition.
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Monitoring Life In The Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate marine life by researching aquatic organisms on the Internet. For this oceanography lesson, students monitor algae and animals of the ocean by identifying their population and habitat on data sheet ID cards. Students...
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Plant Lifecycles

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine the life cycle of plants. In this plants lesson plan, students identify the various stages of plants and their parts. Students compare the life cycle of a plant with that of an animal. Activities suggested can be...
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The Great Barracuda

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore oceanography by researching the great barracuda.  In this animal life lesson, students read several vocabulary terms dealing with ocean life and examine a drawing of a barracuda.  Students examine the many...
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An Alien Has Landed

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify animals within a species by using their observation skills to record information, such as behavioral characteristics.
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Seashore Limitations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.
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Sanctuaries-Providing a Safe Harbor

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the role of marine sanctuaries in the conservation of oceans and the lives of plant and animal species that live there. They write poetry to exhibit what they learn.
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What Is a Pond?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars identify animals and plants that live in a pond. In this marine biology lesson, students create a chart of animals and plants they think they would see at the pond. Young scholars create a "pond symphony" by imitating the...
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What Contains Carbon?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore elements by analyzing everyday objects and materials in class. In this carbon lesson, students define several vocabulary terms such as carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon, and carbonate. Students view a group of items,...
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Wildlife

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The centerpiece of this lesson plan is a predator-prey simulation in which colored paperclips represent different species of animals camouflaged against a colored background. Relevant follow-up questions are provided. The activity is...
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Boom and Bust

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners investigate commercial fishery. In this fishery instructional activity, students describe stages in commercial fishery, interpret data and predict when a fisher stock is showing signs of overexploitation.

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