Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Animales Del Mar (Spanish)
This resource provides colorful pictures of sea animals interact with audio and the written vocabulary word as you move your mouse over the picture. This vocabulary would compliment a science unit on marine life.
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Wicked Diving: Napoleon Wrasse
Because this site belongs to a diving tour company rather than to an aquarium or museum, the information about the Napoleon wrasse is "up close and personal." Learn basic facts about these fish, but also learn how they react to humans in...
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Underwater World, Singapore
At this site you will learn all about Underwater World in Singapore. You can get general information, take a virtual tour, see pictures, and download movies of a diver feeding fish.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Facts About Daphnia (Water Fleas)
Describes the physical characteristics of Daphnia, their importance as a food source for freshwater fish, their diet, life cycle, and methods of reproduction. Offers tips for how to start and maintain a colony of Daphnia that can be used...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Tuna in the Tank
Investigate how scientists track the world's most valuable and endangered fish. Define the range of an individual based on observations made over the course of a day.
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences: Philippine Coral Reef
Get a diver's perspective of the Academy's Philippine Coral Reef tank, the world's deepest living coral reef display. At 25 feet deep, the tank holds 212,000 gallons of water and houses over 2,000 colorful reef fishes.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: What Is the Maximum Intermediate Height for a Siphon?
If you have ever had a fish tank, you have owned an operating siphon. A siphon is a handy device for emptying out a liquid reservoir that has no drain. As a result, they are great for cleaning fish tanks. Liquid in a siphon flows...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learn to Count Money
Practice identifying and counting money with this game. There are three levels to choose from as a beginner or an expert. Each correct problem earns fish for the aquarium. To move on to the next level players must collect ten fish.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Something's Fishy Working With Bar Graphs
In this lesson, students continue to build their graphing skills. This lesson also reinforces important mathematical skills like counting and comparing.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Alien Invasion: Unwanted Travel Partners
Perform an experiment to observe inadvertent transfer of organisms when new fish are transplanted into tropical aquariums. Apply this knowledge to explain how alien species can rapidly destroy the established ecological balance in an...
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Audubon Nature Institute: Sand Tiger Shark
Meet the sand tiger shark to discover details about its behavior, eating habits, range, conservation status, and other unique facts.
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Audubon Nature Institute: Piranha
Meet the piranha and discover details about its behavior, eating habits, range, conservation status, and other unique facts.
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Audubon Nature Institute: Cownose Ray
Meet the cownose ray and discover details about its behavior, eating habits, range, conservation status, and other unique facts.
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Audubon Nature Institute: Clownfish
Meet the clownfish to discover details about its behavior, eating habits, range, conservation status, and other unique facts.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ida May Mellen (1877 1970)
Biologist and ichthyologist Ida May Mellen (1877-1970) was an expert on fish diseases and worked at the New York Aquarium, 1916-1929. She wrote numerous books and articles about marine biology