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Drawing Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students practice creating art by imitating the camouflage of fish. In this animal characteristic lesson, students identify certain fish and their ability to change colors in order to survive in the wild. Students utilize coloring...
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Pollution Solution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, after discussing oil pollution, generate solutions to an oil spill.
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Sunken Slave Ship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students imagine they are archaeologists who are looking for treasure under the sand or sea. They work in teams to create the story and site of a shipwreck in a tub or aquarium filled with sand and water.
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Sink or Float

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore water properties by conducting a class experiment. In this buoyancy lesson, students make predictions as to whether or not specific objects will sink or float in water. Students conduct the experiment and record their...
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Toilet Paper Geologic Time Scale

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine and demonstrate the extent of geologic time compared to recent time. They develop a demonstration of geologic time using an unrolled roll of toilet paper, with each sheet of toilet paper representing 20 million years.
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Innovation: Light Speed

For Students 9th - 12th
Get your scholars working at "light speed" with this worksheet on how different wave frequencies have been discovered and used. The assignment has 20 short-answer questions, set up in a table. Consider re-doing the table or allowing...
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Location Prepositions 2

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of prepositions.
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Discovery Science Center Activities

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a variety of experiments to meet science goals.  In this life sciences instructional activity, 4th graders make yogurt, discover the attraction of opposite charges in electricity, learn the effects of...
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ESL: Dolphins Activity

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL dolphins worksheet, students read an article about dolphins, then complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions; answer may be checked on-line.
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Dino Detectives

For Teachers 4th
As students examine maps of Utah, 4th graders search for clues about what prehistoric life was like in Utah.
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Food Web Mystery

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students describe typical marine food webs, and explain why food is generally scarce in the deep-ocean environment. They discuss reasons that seamounts may support a higher density of biological organisms than would appear to be possible.
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Fish Are Animals Too

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners create posters that show how a shark is a major predator in kelp forests and coral reefs after studying the food webs for these ecosystems. They determine that fish are important animals in the ocean's web of life.
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Hudson Canyon Expedition; Fishy Deep Sea Designs!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the physical location of deep water habitats along the Hudson Shelf Valley and in Hudson Canyon. They study the basic characteristics of the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones with regard to depth, temperature, pres
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Oil Spill Dangers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the effects of oil spills on our environment and develop action plans to protect animals and habitats.
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Plate Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students review the patterns they discovered from a previous activity.  In this investigative lesson students plot data as a class and color a map. 
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Animals: Dolphins

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students use the internet to discover information about dolphins. They examine their behavior, appearance and distribution of dolphins.
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Is Climate Change Really Happening?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the impact of global warming. In this oceanography lesson, students investigate global climate change and write reaction papers about their research findings.
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Estuaries, Estuarine Habitats, and Adaptations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research on estuaries. They design and construct an estuary, describe the physical characteristics of an estuary, and create a diagram illustrating an estuarine food web.
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Waves : An Alternative Energy Source

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the feasibility of wave energy as an alternative source of energy.  In this alternative energy source lesson students are introduced to renewable and nonrenewable energy and study energy production.
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SOS!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine natural and man-made threats to sea turtles. They create sea turtle mobiles while studying the range, environment, predators of and threats to sea turtles.
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One Tough Worm

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explain the process of chemosynthesis and its relevance to biological communities. In this investigative activity students discuss chemosynthetic communities, then in groups they are assigned a species and are to calculate the...
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Supermarkets, Sustenance and Sustainability

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars investigate jungles and the people who depend upon them.  In this sustainability instructional activity, students research wild life conservation and discover the importance of a jungle to Amazonian people....
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Biomes

For Students 5th - 12th
In this biomes worksheet, students review the characteristics of aquatic biomes and terrestrial biomes. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank, 6 multiple choice, and 4 short answer questions.
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Hawaiian Hot Spots

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe how plate tectonics contribute to the development of volcanoes. In this earth science lesson, students examine the map of Hawaii and explore the physical and biological environment there. They write a story about an...