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Filter Feeding in Reef Sponges
Young scholars investigate the role of sponges in our oceans. In this biology lesson, students create a diagram visualizing how sponges bring food into their bodies through a filtering process. Young scholars discuss the connections...
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Animal Movement in Water
Students explore oceanography by participating in field trip activities. For this fish characteristics lesson, students attend a trip to a local beach or reservoir and collect different specimens in order to examine them. Students...
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What On Earth
Young scholars explore earth science through concept mapping, discussion, and self-discovery.
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Do Not Bleach!
Young scholars explore the importance of protecting the coral reefs. In this Oceanography lesson, student examine how coral reefs benefit humans, identify major threats to the reefs, and discuss actions to reduce these threats.
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Swimming with Crabs
Students explore Earth science by completing several graphic organizer activities in class. In this oceanography lesson, students research ocean inhabitants such as blue crab and oysters. Students complete graphic organizers about the...
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Sharkland Wiki
Young scholars, while researching the waters around southern Africa and viewing a video of the episode "Sharkland" from Thirteen's series NATURE, critique reliability of online resources and analyze the various components of a wiki. They...
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Four Seasons
First graders examine and describe the characteristics of the four seasons. Using a computer, they write one sentence about each of the four seasons and draws an illustration to accompany it. They present each drawing and sentence to the...
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Bank On It! Antarctica
In this vocabulary learning exercise, learners read an informational paragraph about Antarctica. Students then fill in the 17 blanks with words from the word bank.