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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom School: Africa

For Students 3rd - 5th
What continent is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea? Click here and find out. Explore art, animals, flags, crafts, explorers, geography, and more to learn about Africa.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Dolphins

For Students 1st - 8th
Kids learn how dolphins eat, sleep, and live together. Bottlenose dolphins and orcas travel the ocean in pods.
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PBS

Pbs Nature: Dolphin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore the world of marine life through the eyes of dolphins when you visit this clear and concise resource. This site features information on where and how dolphins live and other fun facts. Teachers can use this type of site to help...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Australia: How Do Environments Affect Living Things?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Noah lives near the Great Barrier Reef. Go explore this diverse habitat with him.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids

For Students 3rd - 5th
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
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Other

Switch Zoo: Where Do I Live?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In these games, you will move the animals who live in Switch Zoo to their original home continent or ocean.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Fish for Kids: Learn All About Aquatic and Ocean Marine Life

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn what makes up a fish. What are gills and how do they breathe in the water?
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Other

New England Aquarium: Climate Change and the Oceans

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of videos accompanied by student activity sheets explore the impact of climate change on the ocean and the animals that live in and around it: sea turtles, jellies, whales, shore birds, lobsters, and coral.
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Other

Teaching Heart: Penguins

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site if you want to find ideas, lessons and activities related to penguins.
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Curated OER

Coral Reef

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about the underocean environment at this site that surveys animals, environmental factors such as light and temperature, currents, animals, plants, and the like.
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Songs for Teaching

Songs for Teaching: Habitat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to listen to the words of Bill "Mr. Habitat," Oliver as Jeff Schroeder performs "Habitat," a song about different homes animals have. He also encourages us to protect those areas, on behalf of the animals that live there.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Great White Shark for Kids: Learn About These Terrifying Fish

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the Great White Shark, king of sea on this website. Learn how this deadly shark is the leading predator of the ocean.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Blue Whale for Kids: Learn About the Giant Mammal.

For Students 1st - 9th
What are blue whales? Kids find out about the largest mammal on earth that lives in the ocean.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Plumbing the Deep: Using Sound Waves to See

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students learn about echolocation: what it is and how engineers use it to "see" things in the dark, or deep underwater. Also, they learn how animals use echolocation to catch their dinner and travel the ocean waters and...
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Read Works

Read Works: What's in the Oceans? Amazing Ocean Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some of the animals found in the ocean including: sea turtles, sea urchins, starfish, sea horses, and clownfish. A question sheet is available to help students build skills...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Cnidarians

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cnidarians, in the phylum Cnidaria, include organisms such as the jellyfish and sea anemones. These animals are found in shallow ocean water. Learn more about...
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Wonderville Media

Wonderville: Sea Turtles

For Students K - 1st
Sea turtles are one of the earth's oldest animals living in the ocean. They have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. That's over 100 million years! Sea turtles are different from land turtles in two primary ways. Learn about Sea...
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Sorting Living Things

For Students K - 1st
Living things live in places that have what they need to survive. Since fish don't breathe air, they need to live in an ocean. That one is pretty obvious, but what about different kinds of trees? Can all animals that breathe air live...
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Energy4Me

Energy4me: Oil and Natural Gas Formation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn that oil and natural gas taken from the earth's crust today originated as small plants and animals that lived in the ocean millions of years ago.
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Other

Voyage to the Deep: Tubeworm

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is a very brief overview of tubeworms, a hydrothermal vent marine animal.
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Other

Voyage to the Deep: Vent Crab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about vent crabs in this overview that includes a QuickTime video clip and several photos.
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Other

Dayton Art Institute an African Slit Gong

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Art and music are very much related. In fact, the African culture often times designed fun looking instruments like the gong on this website. Includes directions on how to make your own gong.
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Kinder Art

Kinder Art: Construct an Artquarium (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan gives students a chance to create their own underwater animal out of paper-mache, and their imagination. Provides a colorful photo example, assessment criteria, and a suggested book to use for inspiration.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features activities that revolve around "Teaching With Pourquoi Tales." Students will learn more about these types of old legends that deal with the natural world.

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