Ocean Life

Beautiful sea creatures help teach young children about colors in a simple cut-and-paste activity. After looking at fun illustrations of fish, dolphins, crabs, and octopi, youngsters must cut out and match a series of colored circles to...

Celebrate the circle of life with this fun hands-on activity. After cutting out, gluing together, and assembling this visual model, students are able to spin through and observe the life cycle of penguins.

A is for a very, scary anglerfish and Z is for the zebra shark. Here's a template for a colorful, ocean animals alphabet book that includes letter patterns so the kids can trace the letters.

In this number 8 worksheet, young scholars count the number of ocean animals on the worksheet, trace the number 8 three times and the word eight twice. Students print the number and word 8 five times each on their own.

In this sea animals worksheet, students will color and cut out five sea animals and glue them to their correct spot on the picture of the ocean floor.

In this science worksheet, students connect the dots to form 3 different marine animals. Students also write the name of each animal next to its picture.

In this coloring activity, students color large cartoon-style drawings of sea creatures including shellfish, sharks, fish, turtles and marine mammals. There are 15 drawings here, one per page.

After exploring the wonders of ocean life found in tidal pools, explore ocean life through ceramic art. Kids use texturing and the pinch-and-pull technique to create starfish, just like the ones found at the seashore. Suggested...

Something’s fishy! Assign each of your pupils an individual sea creature and investigate the oceans. Young oceanographers utilize Kidspiration software to research a creature, illustrate an image, and create fact cards about their...

Students begin with a hands-on technology research activity. They research the topic of ocean life through connecting Internet links on the TopicQuest page that I developed for my field class students.