Read Works
Read Works: Dead Zone
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the "dead zone," an area in the Guld of Mexico where no fish can live due to pollution from fertilizer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Hawaii Facts, Map, and State Symbols
This is a colorful collection of maps, facts and symbols of Hawaii. Also includes the Hawaiian flag.
NSTATE
California State Symbols
Find out about the official California state symbols and when they were adopted. Click on the words to see a picture and get more information.
State of Florida
Florida Department of State: State Symbols
Learn about all of Florida's state symbols on this colorful page. Click on the symbol for a larger picture and more information.
Other
Massachusetts State Symbols
A thorough collection of the symbols of the state of Massachusetts including a picture, information about the symbol, and date of adoption.
Other
National Resources Defense Council: Your Oceans
Learn about issues that are major threats to the health of our oceans; read personal stories of how these threats affect people whose lives are connected to these valuable resources. Includes possible solutions and things you can do to...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: California
Enchanted Learning provides this fact sheet for California as well as a state map, pictures, state symbols, and links to related information.
NSTATE
Hawaii State Symbols
Learn all about Hawaii's state symbols including the state bird, flower, fish, dance, flag, and more. Click on the symbol name to see a picture and learn more information.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo
Here is the National Zoological Park right at our fingertips. Students will find many things to explore at this colorful and engaging site. Any study of animals will have a successful start here. Chances are students can catch their...
Other
An Aquatic Adventure
In this WebQuest, you must pick a type of water habitat to create a new aquarium, choose three animals that can coexist in this habitat and design your own aquarium.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Coral Reefs: Dissappearing Resource
Why are the reefs disappearing? Use this site to explore the science behind the issue. Useful at several grade levels.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Vertebrate Kidneys
Everything you've ever wanted to know about vertebrate kidneys. Modules include Freshwater Vertebrates, Amphibians, Lizards and Snakes, Birds, Mammals, Marine Fishes. Resources can be used as classroom notes or supplemental materials.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Hear It?
In the previous lesson, students learned about the issue of bycatching by fisheries and how it affects marine habitats. Dolphins are one of the main species affected by bycatching. While dolphins can use echolocation to identify the...
Other
Seafriends: Soil Dependence
This website looks at our dependence on soil and what it produces. It includes text, graphs, charts, illustrations and important statistics. Hosted by the Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Center.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Habitats: Lakes
Learn why the lakes and waterways of Wisconsin are so important and about some of the aquatic animals and plants that live there.
Curated OER
Marine Studies: Symbiosis
View graphics of a mimic octopus, frog fish, snake eel, hermit crab and clown fish. Discover how they form symbiotic relationships.
Curated OER
Marine Studies: Symbiosis
View graphics of a mimic octopus, frog fish, snake eel, hermit crab and clown fish. Discover how they form symbiotic relationships.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Ocean Activity Ideas
Explore ocean habitats, learn about the extreme weather of the ocean and examine environmental threats to the ocean. Conduct experiments on buoyancy and osmosis, and research sailing and ocean-based industry.
The Franklin Institute
Marshall Elementary School: Ocean Games & Puzzles
Complete interactive word searches to find animals of the intertidal zone. Learn ocean facts by completing a crossword puzzle. Match up pieces of a puzzle to display the water cycle. And after learning all that information, test yourself...
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
Wwf: Our Earth: Ecoregions: Habitats: Oceans
An introduction and overview of the ocean habitat, the largest habitat on Earth. Includes links to information about three animals that live in this habitat.
Read Works
Read Works: Super Survival Skills
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of fish are able to defend themselves and survive in their environments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
Other
University of Hawaii: Waikiki Aquarium
Learn about the Waikiki Aquarium by taking a virtual tour and viewing pictures from live cameras.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Are Sharks So Awesome?
Sharks have been celebrated as powerful gods by some native cultures. And today, sharks are recognized as apex predators of the world's ocean. What is it that makes these fish worthy of our ancient legends and so successful in the seas?...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Crittercam Chronicles: Antarctica
Play a game where you explore three scenes in Antarctica and find different types of animals: south polar skua, crabeater seal, emperor penguin, ice fish, leopard seal, killer whale, krill, adelie penguin, and weddell seal. After you...