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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An activity where students learn about the koi, an important symbol in Japanese culture, and create a gyotaku fish printing. This is designed to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden but can be easily adapted.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fred the Fish a Little River Trip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Little River is home to 47 kinds of fish including the threatened "Blue Shiner" Cyprinella caerulea. These fish depend on the good water quality at Little River. This skit allows students to observe pollution's effects on a small scale...
PPT
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: Adaptations to Light

For Students 9th - 10th
View several pictures of ocean life through the eyes of scientists and staff at Woods Hole Oceanography Institute. This particular slideshow highlights how ocean creatures change their colors in order to either hide from or frighten...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Salmon Life Cycle

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Educational site offers an illustration of the salmon life cycle as well as information on salmon reproduction, adaptation to salt water, life span, diet, anatomy, predators and more.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Crazy Camouflage

For Students 3rd - 5th
Create a flounder fish that's hard to spot. In this hands-on activity, students gather evidence to explore how camouflage helps animals survive.
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Restoring Ea is a place-based middle school science unit exploring management strategies that could be used for the Loko ea fishpond to sustainably feed people and ensure the ecosystem is healthy and pono (balanced). While specifically...
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PBS

Nova: Deep Sea Beastiary

For Students 9th - 10th
Get descriptions and pictures of numerous deep sea fish. Discover the adaptations that enable them to survive at tremendous depths.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Science Vocabulary Game

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders will play a review memory game with Utah's Grade 4 Science Standard V vocabulary words during this lesson. Words associated with living things and classifications of living things are included in this lesson.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Light at the Bottom of the Deep, Dark Ocean?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What types of adaptations enable deep-sea fishes to survive and collect food in the darkness of the deep ocean? Interactive, hands-on lesson plan takes students on an exploration of deepwater adaptations by searching for Skittles in a...
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Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: Queen Angelfish

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the queen angelfish focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
Handout
Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: False Percula Clownfish

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the false percula clownfish focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
Interactive
US Fish and Wildlife Service

U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service: Listed Species Believed to or Known to Occur in Each State

For Students 9th - 10th
This page was created for quick access to pages that offer the most recent fact sheets, life history, and regulatory information for different animal species. Choose a state in the list to find a listing of animal species, and follow...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Ish!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Ish!," students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework, students will dramatize a poem about a child debates eating fish with his grandmother.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Underwater Astonishments

For Students 9th - 10th
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the...
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Utah STEM Foundation

Utah Stem Action Center: Sorting Living Things

For Students K - 1st
Living things live in places that have what they need to survive. Since fish don't breathe air, they need to live in an ocean. That one is pretty obvious, but what about different kinds of trees? Can all animals that breathe air live...
Handout
Denver Zoo

Denver Zoo: Lionfish

For Students 9th - 10th
The Denver Zoo provides an in-depth overview of the lionfish highlighting its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
Website
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Bird Anatomy Beautiful Birds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Next to fish, birds are the most abundant vertebrates around. Take a look at the physical traits of birds and how well they adapt to their environments.
PPT
University of Southern California

Structure of Matter: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
A slide show that demonstrates the development of physical structure in the animal world, moving from sponges through mammals.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Baryonyx

For Students 9th - 10th
This CGI drawing shows the possible appearance of Baryonyx, a dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period (around 130 million years ago). Baryonyx featured a number of adaptations which helped it hunt and eat fish, it is one of the few...

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