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Can You Hear It?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students work together to discover the concept of echolocation. They examine dolphins and their behaviors. They discuss how humans could use this information to help them in their everyday lives as well.
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Curated OER

Grammar

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this grammar worksheet, students add -ing to the verbs in eight sentences. For example, "The dolphins were swim...and play...in the ocean."
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Curated OER

Become a Marine Biologist for the Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm different ways to track whales, dolphins, and propoises as a class. In groups, they discuss the positives and negatives of each method. After watching a video, they identify the characteristics of cetacean species...
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Curated OER

Posters and People

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils create and design posters reflecting the types of litter harmful to aquatic wildlife. They explain the dangers of fishing line to aquatic wildlife, plastic bags to dolphins, and fish nets to fish. They design a poster to educate...
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Curated OER

K-O

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this color worksheet, students color ocean animals specified colors. Animals include six animals: a dolphin, a shark, an octopus, a starfish, a crab and a fish. Each animal contains a smiling face and is swimming in the water....
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Curated OER

Classroom JR - Pluralizing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this plural noun learning exercise, students change the singular nouns listed and pictured to plural nouns. Students pluralize the words chicken, tiger, mouse, sheep, fox, walrus, puppy, and dolphin.
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Association for Library Service to Children

Summer Reading List Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What better activity is there for summer than reading? Provide your pupils with 25 book ideas for their summer reading pursuits. A variety of different genres are represented on this list, and each book is paired with publication...
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Curated OER

Mangrove Ecosystem

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Eager ecologists explore ecosystems through video and photographs of a Mangrove. They discuss the animals in this habitat and how they interact with each other after reading and discussing "The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle."...
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California Academy of Science

Fish Prints

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What do a dead fish, conservation, and paint have in common? The answer is a great instructional activity about fish anatomy, fun print making techniques, and unsustainable fishing practices. The class will start by making fish...
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Sylvandell Publishing

It's So Odd!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Some resources are just wonderful for stimulating creative thinking and concept understanding. Children are encouraged to explore odd and even numbers through a variety of creative activities. They group items, read a story, make an...
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Curated OER

Honey Bees and Communication

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Did you know that honey bees dance to communicate information? Do you know why bees use hexagons to build their hives? The Honeybee Man, Brilliant Bees, and Show me the Honey provide background information on how honey bees communicate....
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American Museum of Natural History

Mammal Flipbooks

For Students 6th - 12th
Scholars follow eight steps to create a flipbook and discover key facts about mammals' locomotion.
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Curated OER

My School Trip to the Aquarium

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Second graders correct verb usage in context, fill in the blanks to complete sentences, and use the writing prompt to write about a school trip to an aquarium or a zoo. They write 20 answers.
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Sea World

Seaworld Science Activity

For Teachers K - 4th
A fun collection of activities about marine life would be a great addition to your elementary science unit. From cute penguins to scary sharks, the unit features crafts, experiments, and basic research projects that will teach your...
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Tasha McKelvey

Clay Whistles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Create clay whistles with your elementary or middle school students. The project is outlined in great detail here, complete with step-by-step photographs, finished examples, a materials list, student handouts, and a rubric. Students...
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Curated OER

Connectors Exercise: Transitional Words

For Students 3rd - 8th
Transitional words and phrases make writing smooth and ease oral fluency. This resource gives English  learners a chance to practice using common connecting words and phrases like above all, firstly (sic), instead, etc. Answers are...
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Soft Schools

Similes and Metaphors

For Students 2nd - 6th
Do your kids a little more practice identifying similes and metaphors? This worksheet can be used as extra practice, for homework, or as part of a group activity
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K12 Reader

Using Collective Nouns

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What do you call a group of soccer players? Or a bunch of bees? Young grammarians review eight sentences and add the correct collective noun based on the context clues they observe.
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Curated OER

How to Hide in the Ocean

For Teachers K - 8th
Students observe and discuss the advantages of camouflage, then try their hands at designing a well-camouflaged fish.
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Curated OER

Online Information: Fact or Fiction

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Discuss ways to determine if the information middle and high schoolers gather online is accurate. Using the Internet, they cite two sources that show conflicting points of view on a subtopic of conservation. They summarize and analyze...
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Curated OER

What's In a Name?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Introduce your language arts class to connotation, denotation, and diction. Middle schoolers identify and differentiate between the connotative and denotative  meanings of words by analyzing the fictitious sports team names....
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Royal BC Museum

Kids Page - Whales

For Students 4th - 6th
Read about the physical features of whales and how they are grouped according to their method of eating food. A neat activity is described on the page; consider carrying this out in class. The resource makes a nice addition to a lesson...
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Curated OER

Irregular Verbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
Divided into two 10-question exercises, this learning exercise provides practice with irregular verbs in the simple past tense. Ten present-tense, monosyllabic verbs are given in a word bank; learners write the past tense form in a blank...
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Curated OER

Whale Challenge

For Students 4th - 5th
In this review or quiz about whales worksheet, students read phrases describing something about whales and identify the answer. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers.

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