Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing [Pdf]
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fred the Fish a Little River Trip
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...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: Adaptations to Light
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...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Salmon Life Cycle
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.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Crazy Camouflage
Create a flounder fish that's hard to spot. In this hands-on activity, students gather evidence to explore how camouflage helps animals survive.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Restoring Ea Middle School Science Unit
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...
PBS
Nova: Deep Sea Beastiary
Get descriptions and pictures of numerous deep sea fish. Discover the adaptations that enable them to survive at tremendous depths.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Science Vocabulary Game
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Light at the Bottom of the Deep, Dark Ocean?
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...
Denver Zoo
Denver Zoo: Queen Angelfish
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the queen angelfish focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
Denver Zoo
Denver Zoo: False Percula Clownfish
The Denver Zoo features a comprehensive overview of the false percula clownfish focusing on its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
US Fish and Wildlife Service
U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service: Listed Species Believed to or Known to Occur in Each State
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...
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Ish!" Poetry Theater
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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Underwater Astonishments
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...
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Sorting Living Things
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...
Denver Zoo
Denver Zoo: Lionfish
The Denver Zoo provides an in-depth overview of the lionfish highlighting its habitat, range, adaptations, diet, physical characteristics, and more.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Bird Anatomy Beautiful Birds
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.
University of Southern California
Structure of Matter: Animals
A slide show that demonstrates the development of physical structure in the animal world, moving from sponges through mammals.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Baryonyx
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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