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Science 4 Inquiry

At the Top: A Bald Eagle's Diet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Bald eagles are opportunistic predators and eat fish as well as raccoons and other mammals. Pupils learn about bald eagle diets through a simple simulation and videos. They collect and analyze data to understand the adaptability of this...
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The Miracle Fish: Learning to Design an Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop procedures to explore the behavior of fish.  In this scientific experiment lesson students from a hypothesis, write a question, identify different variables and controls in their experiment. 
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Science: Observing Fish Behavior

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, working in pairs, select and observe fish in the Aquademics aguarium. They record their observations on worksheets and make graphs displaying the frequency of various fish behaviors. Students then discuss their...
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Fish Fact Rummy

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study and explore the base of PA game fish species and characteristics.  In this cooperative learning instructional activity students create a fish fact game by researching information on certain species then play...
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Fun With Fish Forms

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore fish adaptations and anatomy. In this science lesson, students discuss various adaptations of fish and how those adaptations help them.
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Toothpick Fish

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners experiment with genes and environment for a population of "Toothpick Fish."
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Fishing for the Future

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners research Hawaii's fishing regulations. In this conservation lesson, students explore the reasons behind ocean conservation. Resources are provided.
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Go Fish!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice their reading comprehension by participating in a fictional fishing exercise.  In this children's literature lesson, students read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss, and discuss the...
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Science: Identifying Fish Parts

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify parts of fish and their functions. They compare the fish's body parts and purposes to their own. Working in groups, they complete worksheets by labeling fish parts on a drawing.
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Fish Anatomy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify and interpret the internal anatomy of the fish. They also identify and define vocabulary for anatomical parts and anatomical functions and forms. Finally, students identify and interpret the differences in fish...
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Feeding Your Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discuss nutrition and diet. They look at copies of Tetra's Daily Nutrition Pyramid for Tropical Fish. They compare the fish feeding pyramid to the pyramid for human nutrition. Students examine a can of fish food.
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Fish Parasite Survey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students survey and dissect as many fish as possible. They count nematodes, cestodes and crustaceans on the fish, fill out autopsy reports, and transfer data to a chalkboard data table. Students graph the results of the entire class...
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Wow! Water, Trees, Fish!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students observe the wildlife shown on the Washington state quarter and discuss what the world would be like if there were no natural resources. They complete a worksheet of drawings that depict the world without trees, water or fish.
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Fishing Game: Stella PC and Mac

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils play The Fishing Game as a manager in the national fish and wildlife service charged with the responsibility of making policy suggestions regarding the management of a fishery surrounding national borders.
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Fisheries Project

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore biology by completing a fishing worksheet. In this commercial fishery instructional activity, students identify the process of taking mass fish from the ocean and delivering them to eateries while discussing the negative...
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Fish Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students prepare for a unit on aquarium maintenance by naming all the different kinds of fish they have seen either in aquariums, at home, or in the community. They use classroom computers to email other classrooms around the world for...
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"The Aquatic Fish Foods"

For Students 5th - 12th
In this insects worksheet, students access a website to answer questions about the different types of insects that are food for fish. This worksheet has 10 short answer questions.
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Fish, Fish: Teaching K Students About Things That Live in the Sea

For Teachers K
Students participate in activities designed to help them connect the words to the animals they are studying. Octopus is reinforced through playing a game, "Octopus Tag." Students play a cooperation game of passing bean bags from student...
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Environment: Fishing and Property Rights

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a role-playing "fishing game" to discover how over-harvesting can eliminate a resource. In the second round of the game, students are told they can only fish in their assigned territories. Students explain the...
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Embryological Development Using Medaka Fish

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze and record major events that occur in the development of Medaka fish eggs from fertilization to hatching. In small group, students describe the processes involved, creating a timeline of the major events in the...
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Fishing for El Nino

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explain why fish are in their usual location from the perspective of a worker on a fishing boat. They use clues clues, research, and a fake letter from their friend in North Carolina to determine the cause is El Nino.
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Getting to Know "Aquatic Fish Foods"

For Students 5th - 12th
In this fish worksheet, students access a website to learn more about the common insects eaten by fish. Then students draw and label three types of insect life cycles. This worksheet has 10 true or false questions and 3 drawings.
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Fish Spawning Comparison

For Students 5th - 12th
In this fish worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by writing in when, where, and how 10 different fish lay their eggs.
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Fishing Pole

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a fishing pole for magnets. In this magnet lesson, students create a fishing pole with a magnet on the end. Students then "fish" and try to find things that are magnetic.

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