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DK Publishing

Learning 2 - Write the Word

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Focus on the number two with beginning counters as they review its word form, number form, and value. First, learners practice printing the word two, tracing it before writing it once on their own. Next, they draw two bunnies and then...
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Curated OER

Animal Homes

For Students K - 2nd
Match animals to their environments with a cute lab activity. Kids draw a line between each animal, such as a fish, a rabbit, and an ant, to the place where it lives. For hands-on practice, a science investigation instructs learners to...
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Curated OER

Munchtime for animals

For Students 3rd - 4th
Which animals eat meat to stay alive? Third graders group fish, hawks, and cats into carnivores and herbivores. An extended activity prompts kids to cut out magazine pictures of different animals according to the foods that they eat. 
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Curated OER

¡No robes los peces!

For Students 5th - 7th
Your beginning Spanish speakers read the short reading passage about a girl, her cat, and a fish. After reading, have them answer the three multiple choice questions and the one short answer question provided. The answers are on the...
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Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
You want your class to meet all of the Common Core standards, and here is one way to tackle the first speaking and listening standard. Given a theme to focus on from "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy, small groups come up...
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Lesson Plan
Global Change

Impact of Climate Change on the Desert Pupfish

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
A fish that lives in the desert? You and your class can meet the desert pupfish as they examine its habitat, the role humans play in diminishing water supplies, and how climate change might impact this fishy friend. There are four short...
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Scholastic

Study Jams! Changes in Ecosystems

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Our scholarly friends head to the lake to go fishing and are unpleasantly surprised by the algae filling the water. They talk about primary and secondary succession as different ways that ecosystems are changed. Show the short video,...
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Printables
Teacher's Guide

Incentive and Behavior Charts

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Incentive and behavior charts abound in this packet, which features bears, ladybugs, cars, and fish. Good behavior is rewarded with stickers that kids can place on their "Beary Good Behavior Chart." A beary nice printable.
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Reading Resource

/i/ Word List

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Six silly chicks sit and fish with big strings and sticks. Help young readers develop the phonemic awareness skills needed to detect the sound structure of words and the vowel sounds in words with an exercise that asks them to identify...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Colors All Around: Challenge Activities (Theme 2)

For Teachers K Standards
Color, color, everywhere. As part of a three-week study of color, kindergarteners create animal color cards, design pages for an class animal book, populate an underwater scene with colorful fish, and invent and name a new color. 
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Lesson Plan
Civil War Trust

Civil War Slang

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Introduce a lesson on Civil War slang to your class of fresh fish. After looking at pictures from the Civil War and examining the list of slang terms, young historians write a letter to a family member as if they are a Union soldier or a...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Anthropogenic Biomes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you teach a man to fish, he will never go hungry—or he will overfish and permanently damage the ecosystem? Address the traditional biomes as well as the human-included ecosystems and contrasts the biotic and abiotic factors in each....
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Lesson Plan
NOAA

Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Through Robot Eyes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How can a robot measure the length of something when we don't know how far the camera is from the object? The lesson explains the concept of perspective and many others. Scholars apply this knowledge to judge the length of fish and the...
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Lesson Plan
LABScI

Freezing Point Depression: Why Don’t Oceans Freeze?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can you go ice fishing in the ocean? Learners examine the freezing point of different saltwater solutions. Each solution has a different concentration of salt. By comparing the freezing points graphically, they make conclusions about...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Describing Center, Variability, and Shape of a Data Distribution from a Graphical Representation

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is the typical length of a yellow perch? Pupils analyze a histogram of lengths for a sample of yellow perch from the Great Lakes. They determine which measures of center and variability are best to use based upon the shape of the...
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Lesson Plan
Science 4 Inquiry

At the Top: A Bald Eagle's Diet

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Bald eagles are opportunistic predators and eat fish as well as raccoons and other mammals. Pupils learn about bald eagle diets through a simple simulation and videos. They collect and analyze data to understand the adaptability of this...
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Activity
Nuffield Foundation

Extracting DNA from Living Things

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help! Someone's trying to take my DNA! An interesting lab experiment has scholars use basic materials to extract DNA. By applying ethanol, cold water, and a protease enzyme, like pineapple juice, they pull strands of DNA from peas,...
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Surface Area and Volume of 3-D Objects

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Don't let the class tank the project. After reviewing formulas for surface area and volume, pupils design fish tanks that maximize volume. They research cost of materials online and must meet a budgetary constraint when creating their...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

End of Unit 1 Assessment: Analyzing Author’s Point of View and How it is Conveyed

For Teachers 6th Standards
One step at a time. Scholars complete the end of unit assessment by reading pages 70–75 of World without Fish and analyzing each paragraph one at a time. They highlight key words leading to author's point of view and complete a point of...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Analyzing Point of View and Figurative Language: Noah’s Point of View of Florida

For Teachers 6th Standards
Fishing for words. Scholars search for unfamiliar words in pages 27-29 of Flush, place them in their word catchers, and complete part of Noah’s Point of View graphic organizer. After identifying figurative language, learners analyze tone...
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EngageNY

Introduction: The Ideas of Charles Darwin

For Teachers 6th Standards
Piece by piece ... Scholars read the text World without Fish by breaking the text into pieces. They identify challenging words and determine the gist of each section as they read. They then work together in triads to answer...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit 3 Assessment, Part 2: Explaining How New Information Connects to the Topic

For Teachers 6th Standards
Let's talk it out. Using the resource, scholars work in triads to discuss how their research has deepened their understanding about sustainable fishing. Next, pupils engage in a whole-class discussion to consider their next steps toward...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

/sh/ Sound Work

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
What letters create the /sh/ sound? Have your elementary learners study the sound, write different words that use the sound in their letter boxes, and read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! After this mini-lesson, can your...
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Curated OER

Bycatch

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Bycatch is the unwanted and discarded marine life caught during commercial fishing. Young marine scientists review bycatch litigation and analyze graphs of bycatch data and answer questions about it. This raises awareness while...

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