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Conserving Marine Life

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss the different threats to various marine life. Through research, groups examine threats to specific marine life, evaluate the situation, and develop possible solutions to help marine life regain stability. Conservation...
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Create an Underwater Scene

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students apply knowledge of underwater ocean life by creating an ocean life scene with marine animals and plants placed at appropriate ocean depths.
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Ocean Animals vs. Humans

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use critical thinking skills to solve word problems using ratios that allow them to compare humans to ocean animals.
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Water Density and Stability Lab

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students observe how different water densities and salinity control the depth at which different water masses occur. Submarines are used as a case study. This is a well-designed with an excellent worksheet.
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Creating Dinosaurs from Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn how scientists compare dinosaur tracks to those of modern animals, how scientists create a full model of a dinosaur from its tracks and how the age of dinosaur tracks is determined.
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Junk Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students find uses for old or discarded items (recycling) by making puppets.
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Follow Spring's Journey North Recording Highlights of the Season

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students scan headlines on the Journey North News Updates each day to track the changes that spring brings as it comes to different areas of the United States.
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Dolphin Documentary

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use their knowledge of dolphin natural history to create a "movie."
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Deep Blue Sea

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore animals, plants, and their habitats.
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Stranded along the Coast

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students plot stranding sites onto a map using latitude and longitude as well as compass directions with respect to coastal features. They identify several species of marine animals that might become stranded; distinguish their...
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Ask Jake the Sea Dog

For Teachers K - 12th
Students access the ask-the-expert portion of the WhaleTimes.org website. They fill in the online form to submit a query of their choice and check their e-mail regularly for a response.
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in an experiment that shows them how to use their senses to find their way "home." This experiment is based on the video that shows how salmon find their way to their home stream.
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Oceanography

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify saltwater and freshwater habitats and the resources found in them. They compare and contrast the two habitats and discuss their findings. They discover the resources bodies of water can provide.
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Adaptations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify features of animals that enable survival in particular environments and group animals on the basis of their similarities. They compare and contrast features of groups of animals.
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Monitor Marine Migrants

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students, in groups, track the seasonal journey of a species, such as a shorebird, sea turtle, or marine mammal, using various sources of migration data
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TE Lesson: Caught in the Net

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners student the concept of bycatch, the act of unintentionally catching certain living creatures using fishing equipment. They determine the difference between bycatch and target creatures. They discover what species become bycatch...
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Animal Habitats

For Teachers K
Students study the word habitat and its meaning. They also identify that in order for something to be classified as a habitat there needs to be the proper shelter, food, water, and space.
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Observing and Discovering Using Our Senses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders decide if it is possible to identify something using only the senses of taste, smell and hearing. They listen to a CD of animal sounds with their eyes closed and attempt to identify the animal. Next, they smell an air...
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The Plant and Animal Walk

For Teachers K
Students draw pictures and write words to describe objects and experiences. They observe outside and draw at least three animals and three plants. Students observe plants and animals describing how they are alike and how they are...
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Shark Attack

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine the white shark. They think critically about a set of shark facts and predict whether the statements are true or false. Students describe a year in the life of a white shark living in the Red Triangle. They create a...
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Snow on Sea Ice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine different samples of ice and predict the amount of snow that has fallen in a given year. Using a calculator, they graph the various thicknesses. They analyze the graphs to determine the relationship between the...
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Sharks

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify and analyze the many types of sharks that can be found in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. They also identify what the sharks eat for food, their habitats, and their constuction to the environment and the food...
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Sharkland Wiki

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, while researching the waters around southern Africa and viewing a video of the episode "Sharkland" from Thirteen's series NATURE, critique reliability of online resources and analyze the various components of a wiki. They...
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The Environment and Animals

For Students 7th
In this environment and animals worksheet, 7th graders match ten pictures with their actual titles, answer seven statements as true and false, and discuss six questions together.

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