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Water Trash

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine how plastic waste affects the marine environment. They describe techniques that reduce plastic waste in this environment after examining plastic waste that accumulates in their own homes.
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Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study and research marine invertebrates.  In this marine activity students create an illustrated report and help complete a class exhibit. 
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Bioluminescence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the concept of bioluminescence. They identify marine animals who have use this and why. They work together to test the function of bioluminescence as camouflage.
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Kure Waste Chase Game Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students work together to identify marine debris. They explain the effect of the debris on various ecosystems. They draw different types of ocean currents as well.
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Sharks: Scavenging Stomachs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role played by sharks in the marine food chain. They conduct a scavenger hunt collecting items that have actually been removed from the stomachs of sharks, and create a display that includes the items and newspaper...
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Boston Harbor Cruise: A Shoreline Survey

For Teachers K - 6th
The students take a harbor cruise, photograph, and draw shore line features attending to evidence of human impact/consequences, and its cost on marine/land animal habitats vegetation, weather patterns, signs of erosion, and the water...
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Getting Food

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore seashore ecosystems.  In this marine animal biology lesson plan, students sort photographs of various sea creatures according to their eating habits and discuss each animal's identifiable traits.  Students draw...
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Introduction to Ocean Grazers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore biology by creating a poster with classmates. In this oceanography lesson, students identify the importance of coral reefs to the ocean's ecology and examine a food web of ocean animals. Students define a list of...
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Shoal Destroying

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars investigate methods used in the fishing industry. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students visit selected websites to research fishing methods and create a game based around the fishing industry.
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Shark Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this sharks worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions about the Great White Shark and its physical characteristics, diet, life span, and more.
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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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A Fish Research Report

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars select a species of fish and research facts about this species. They illustrate the written report with a picture of their chosen fish. The illustration may be labeled with body parts and background typical of the fish...
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Color Me

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this color me worksheet, students color and illustrate a fish, a bird, a sea creature and one forest animal: bluegill, Northern cardinal, painted turtle and red fox.
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Blue Planet: Tidal Seas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate how tides affect sea life. In this video based lesson, students view a video on how tides affect sea life. They do web-based research to find the answers to a series of questions and then play Tidal Trivia to test...
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The Robot Fisherman

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the use of robotic vehicles for fish surveys. In this ocean life lesson, students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using underwater robots and the requirements an underwater robot must meet in order to observe...
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Gifts from the Sea

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the oceanic food chain.  In this healthy eating lesson, student investigate the fish we eat and the food the fish eat.  Students discover what ocean animals eat seaweed and what everyday foods we eat that also...
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The Great Barracuda

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore oceanography by researching the great barracuda.  In this animal life lesson, students read several vocabulary terms dealing with ocean life and examine a drawing of a barracuda.  Students examine the many...
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Cetacean or Fish?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students cut out pictures from magazines of fish and cetaceans. They make a creative bulletin board labeling their pictures and identifying different features.
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Exploring Fish Anatomy and Commercial Fishing Gear

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate commercial fishing by exploring the technical methods.  For this environmental lesson, students identify the fish that are most commonly consumed by humans and trace their path from ocean to plate. ...
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Planetary Web Of Life

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils watch a video about the death of a whale. They explore the possible reasons for a marine mammal's death and discuss the importance of its death to our own lives and survival.
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California Academy of Science

Ocean Acidification Mock Conference

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In a comprehensive role playing activity, teens play the parts of different stakeholders in the realm of acidic oceans. They research, debate, and create a presentation from the perspective of either ocean organisms, the fishing...
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Gas Exchange And Respiratory Systems.

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Explore structures within the realm of gas exchange in terrestrial and aquatic life.  The excellent, labelled diagrams and clear descriptions help your students view the different structures and adaptations that have...
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Amphipods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify organisms that live at the bottom of the body of water. In this biology lesson, students evaluate the effects of pollution to amphipods population. They examine collected data and create a bar graph comparing them.
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Seashore Limitations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.

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