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Fish In a Bottle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work together to build their own fish ecosystems. As a class, they share their prior knowledge about catfish and use a diagram to label its body parts. They record their observations of the ecosystem and determine what they...
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Fish: General Information and a Dissection

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, after taking a "fish quiz" in class, assess the different parts of a fish and their purposes. They dissect two yellow perch fish in class. In addition, they discuss the different parts of the fish as they dissect their organs.
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Management of Commercial Fisheries, Part 3

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students search the Internet and write a research paper on the environment.  In this investigative lesson students develop a paper on fisheries and management of them. 
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Science: Observing Fish Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars identify and explain various fish behaviors through observation. Over several months, they watch one fish in the classroom aquarium and record its behaviors in notebooks. They visit a virtual aquarium Website to find...
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Fish Count

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this science worksheet, students read about how scientists determine the total number of fish in a population. Students also participate in a related math activity.
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Fred the Fish -- A River Ran Wild

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students apply cause and effect relationships to water pollution in a stream. In this pollution instructional activity students recognize the importance of clean water in their daily lives. Students accompany "Fred the Fish" as he...
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Tropical Fish of the Great Barrier Reef

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this science worksheet, learners discover facts about the tropical fish of the Great Barrier Reef. Students read 12 paragraphs about species in the reef waters and look at the photographs. Learners complete a crossword puzzle about...
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Fish Sorting

For Students 7th - 9th
In this classification worksheet, students are given nine pictures of different types of fish. They cut them out and use a key to classify each into a category based on their characteristics.
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Biology Project: Gone Fishing

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students write a scientific article using data and prediction skills. In this scientific writing lesson, students access data about fishing off the coast of New Jersey. They look at satellite data, fluorometry and CTD data over a 3 -4...
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Ethical Ways to Acquire and Distribute Fish as a Food Source

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the ethics of acquiring and distributing fish as a food source. They touch on the ethics involved in genetically modified salmon, as well.
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Activity 3 - Fish Anatomy: A Comparison Between Temperate and Antarctic Fishes

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students are explained that Antarctic Nototherioid fishes survive harsh conditions. These conditions would kill almost any other temperate zone organism. They work in small groups to investigate a typical temperate marine fish. ...
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Fish Farm: an open ended, student centered laboratory activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are contacted by a fictitious company which raises tropical fish to do basic research for them so that they might keep their production costs down. They need to know the optimum salinity in which to hatch the brine shrimp that...
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Word Search: Arctic Fishes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this word search worksheet, learners will find and circle the names of 23 different kinds of Arctic fish. Realistic, color pictures accompany the name of each fish.
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More Rocket Science

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students observe two rocket science experiments, and create a graph to demonstrate the results. They draw a picture and write an explanation of the results of the experiments.
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Fish Puzzle

For Students 4th - 7th
In this fish word search puzzle, students identify types of fish. Examples include catfish, perch, and shark. A list of 48 names of fish are provided to assist the students in their search.
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Study Jams! Vertebrates

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Your back will be covered when you use this presentation to introduce beginning biologists to phylum chordata, the vertebrates. Five classes are defined: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals throughout the eight vibrant slides....
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Math & Science Connection

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Whether you're using a collection of Dr. Seuss books to teach basic math skills like counting, adding, and subtracting, or exploring the different states of matter by melting a crayon with a hairdryer, a series...
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Icefish Blood Adaptations: Viscosity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Most fish freeze to death when the water is too cold, yet some fish live in the Southern Ocean where the water is often below freezing. Scholars use two models representing the blood from most fish versus the blood from Antarctic fish....
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Fish and Wildlife in America

For Teachers 8th
Some of the details of the use of wildlife as food and crop resources are given at the beginning of this slideshow. Next, the historical problems with wildlife are explained, as are some mistakes that have been made leading to extinction...
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The Making of the Fittest: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
How did the stickleback fish, which was once ocean bound, evolve to be able to persist in freshwater lakes? Hear from the scientists who identified the genes and related switches that allowed these survivors to adapt. In addition to the...
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CK-12 Foundation

Going Fishing

For Students 6th - 12th
Why do some things float and others sink? A creative simulation allows learners to adjust mass and volume of an object to affect its buoyancy in water. A graph records the effect of each manipulation.
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Aquarium of the Pacific

Ocean Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Watch what happens in an underwater wonderland! Pupils view a video about two specific ocean habitats and complete a worksheet by placing the fish species into the correct habitat. They then take a deeper look into the ocean habitats by...
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Physical Science- Sink or Float?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners investigate which objects sink and which ones float. Learners engage in an experiment, make predictions, and record results on a graphic organizer. This is a comprehensive and easy to follow resource.
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Aquatic Science

For Teachers 7th - 8th
What a terrific way to explore the pond habitat! Learners discuss the animal and plant life found in the Long Island area. They also discuss vocabulary terms, identify pollution concerns, and resource conservation.

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