NOAA
Exploring Potential Human Impacts
Arctic sea ice reflects 80 percent of sunlight, striking it back into space; with sea ice melting, the world's oceans become warmer, which furthers global warming. These activities explore how humans are impacting ecosystems around the...
NOAA
Vertebrates II
Mammals of the ocean unite! Or not. The 20th installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program investigates how warm-blooded marine mammals survive in water. In the class activity, learners use...
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It’s a Plankton Eat Plankton World
For as small as they are, plankton sure play an enormous role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Dive into an investigation of these tiny organisms with a hands-on life science activity in which children cut out pictures of sea animals...
Curated OER
Who am I?
A matching activity on some common marine mammals is here for you. In it, 12 animals such as polar bears and seals are found. Each of the animals has a colorful and accurate picture associated with it. The bonus question at the bottom...
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Sealed With a Chop
Students research the tradition of using personal seals from ancient to contemporary times in China. They become familiar with several Chinese characters and reproduce a facsimile of a Chinese personal seal or chop and use it to mark...
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Marine Fisheries Management
Almost 200 slides make this a vast collection! It is a quirky collection, titled "Marine Fisheries Management," but having little to do with that occupation. What you will find are two-toned blue backgrounds with no pictures, but a few...
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Inuit and Arctic Animals
Students will explore the animals and people living in the Arctic. For this science lesson, students locate Alaska on a globe, discuss its climate and geographical features, and identify common arctic animals. Students complete the first...
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Mazes
In this mazes worksheet, students determine the most efficient path in a maze to help an air-breathing seal find its way to an air hole.
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In Whom Do We Trust?
Students articulate their understanding of the framers' intentions with respect to the separation of church and state, explore the issue of church/state separation and how it is currently manifesting itself in Ohio by reading and...
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Underwater Animals
Students investigate mammals and blubber. In this science lesson abut the sea, students perform an experiment that will help them in discovering how blubber keeps sea mammals warm.
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Seals, Corals, and Dollars...
Young scholars explore the interdependence of animals and their habitat. In this Hawaiian ecology lesson, students work in groups to research the necessity of preserving precious coral as a habitat for monk seals. Young scholars...
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First Word: Seal
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word seal, write it independently, and identify it in a group of other words.
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Know It All: Seals! Teaching Plan
Students discover information about seals, including behavior and habitat. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify various aspects about seals. Students create an illustration or painting of their favorite seal, and...
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Mazes: Striped Bass
In this mazes worksheet, young scholars find the best way to help a striped bass escape a seal through a maze. Students share their routes with each other.
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Mazes
In this mazes worksheet, students develop a strategy to work through a seal maze while starting at the top of the seal and ending at the bottom of the seal.
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Connect the Dots: Polar Bear
In this connect the dots worksheet, students connect the dots to an animal that spends most of its life on shifting sea ice and is a marine mammal.
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Seal Drawing
In this coloring worksheet, learners examine a black line drawing of a cartoon-style seal character. Students color the picture.
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Seal Picture
In this seal coloring learning exercise, students color a picture of a seal. There are no directions given and there are no words on this learning exercise.
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S for Seal
In this word practice worksheet, students complete a word scramble, a similar/differences activity, a word creation activity, and a word search puzzle. All activities relate to seals.
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S for Seal
In this seal information worksheet, students read several informational passages about seals. Students learn facts about the animals and read a poem.