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Mazes: Sea Stars
In this mazes worksheet, students determine and analyze the best strategy for assisting a sea star find a meal through the journey of a maze.
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What's This? Sensing
There is a scallop that relies on sight so much that it actually has more than 100 eyes! There are many species that rely heavily on one sense or another. An online interactive resource has youth read about several of these animals. The...
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Picture Scramble: Giant Pacific Scallop, Blue Crab, Sea Sack
In this science and visual discrimination worksheet, students examine images of a giant pacific scallop, blue crab and sea sack. Next to each picture is the same image which has been divided into 9 pieces and scrambled. Students place...
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What Lives In A Shell?
Younger students focus on animals and animal habitats in the lower grades. This resource defining habitats focuses on sea animals with shells, but could be augmented to be a richer experience.
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Common Shells Word Search Worksheet
In this word search worksheet, students locate the names of 22 common sea shells. They use the pictures and names of the shells that are shown on the page to solve the puzzle.
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Color Me- Common Seashore Creatures
For this science animal coloring worksheet, students color black-line pictures of 4 common seashore creatures. They color a Calico Scallop, a Blue Crab, a Hermit Crab, and a Sea Grape.
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Invertebrates
Of all invertebrates, insects by far are the most numerous. Scholars discuss invertebrates and then use a key to classify them. They see different examples and must describe features of each organism based upon the key.
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High School Marine Science at its Best: Research Collaboration
Students formulate a more accurate understanding of the true nature of scientific research and the challenges and rewards of field investigations.
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Seashell Homes
Pupils listen to a story about seashells. They discuss shelled animals. Learners describe the function of seashell. Pupils relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling. They differentiate between shelled animals that make...
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Classification and Identification
Students, after exploring and analyzing diagrammatic and taxonomic keys and their association to marine sciences, identify and classify objects and organisms based on visual attributes/characteristics. They research and create their own...
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Fossil History
Learners examine the similarities and differences between living organisms and fossils. In this fossil activity students reenact the process of creating a fossil.
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Science and Math Lab (Students Look at Symmetry in Nature)
Learners study patterns. In this symmetry in nature instructional activity, students examine objects to determine what type of symmetry they have. They work in small groups to rotate through stations that have objects for them to study.
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Stranded Along The Coast
Students reflect and investigate how a seacoast is the dynamic border between two worlds-the terrestrial and the marine. In the realm of life science, we can observe marine animals that inhabit the shoreline and tidepools. In the realm...
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Seafood: For the Love of Fish
Students role play a scenario specific to decision making in seafood management and conservation. In this marine science lesson, students estimate seafood consumption in their state. They recommend new regulations for better fishery...
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Oceanography Research
Fifth graders locate information on a specific ocean animal using encyclopedias, nonfiction books, SIRS Discoverer, multimedia encyclopedias, and the Internet. They create an acrostic poem about the ocean animal they have been researching.
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Oddball Out: Shells
In this problem solving worksheet, young scholars analyze a row of pictures of various shells to determine which creature is different from the others pictured.
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Marine Animal Word Search
In this marine animals worksheet, students complete a word search of 23 marine animals whose names are given at the bottom of the page.