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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
In this literature learning exercise, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about The Pearl. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 14 multiple choice questions about Steinbeck's The Pearl. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Little Oyster: Ceramic Lesson
Children will love researching and then creating a bottom dwelling mollusk of their own. They watch clips describing the ocean ecosystem and how oysters fit into their environment. Next, they research what oysters eat and how they look....
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Black Pearls
Students examine where pearls come from and where mollusks are found. They discover how pearls are formed in nature and how they are they made by humans. They use ordinary oyster shells to examine mother of pearl.
Biology Junction
Mollusks
Mollusks created every shell on Earth. Young scientists learn more about the phyllum mollusca in an informative presentation. It covers their characteristics, body plans, and relationships in the ecosystem. Then, it details each class of...
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Technological Twins
Students list comparisons between technology and nature. Then they create superheroes with special animal characteristics and describe how ordinary persons might replicate the changes with technology.
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The Oceans
Students read books and create a classroom museum based upon things they learn about the ocean. In this ocean lesson plan, students use 2 weeks to read and complete activities on the culture and environment of the ocean.
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Philippine Geography
In this Philippines worksheet, students answer geography questions about the Philippines in multiple choice form. Students complete 10 questions.
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Ocean Market
Students identify some consumer goods that come from the ocean.
They classify these items into groups, identify their source, and calculate the cost of buying such goods.
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Geology- Gemstones, Fossils and Rocks Quiz
In this earth science quiz worksheet, students answer 10 fill-in-the-blank questions about gemstones, fossils, and rocks. They see pictures of rocks, minerals, and a dinosaur fossil on the page. They check their answers with the word...
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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 18
In this confused words learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct confusing word. Students complete 20 sentences.
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ESL: Homonym Quiz 43
In this ESL homonym quiz, students complete a set of 20 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct homonym to complete a sentence. Students may click on an "answer" button.
Jewelry Central
Jewelry Central: Pearls
This commercial site gives general information on pearls, including their physical properties and where they are found.
PBS
Pbs: What's Killing the Oysters?
A special report provided for by PBS on what's killing the oysters of Ago Bay in Japan.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: The Allure of Pearls
Exhibition of some of the first known gems to early humans, this collection of pearls includes several world famous precious stones.
PBS
Nova Online: How Many Pearls? A Weight & Volume Game
This interactive game has students apply skills in estimation, measurement, and basic addition using pearls. Students are asked to estimate the number of pearls in a treasure chest by making predictions and using number sense. The skills...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: How Do Oysters Make Pearls?
Find out how oysters are able to produce pearls as well as how they can be cultured. Includes information about the commercial value of pearls, the variety, and how they are obtained.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Pearl
This site from Wikipedia provides a general overview of the pearl, a hard, rounded secretion formed inside the shell of mollusks.
Curated OER
Unesco: Bahrain: Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
The site consists of seventeen buildings in Muharraq City, three offshore oyster beds, part of the seashore and the Qal’at Bu Mahir fortress on the southern tip of Muharraq Island, from where boats used to set off for the oyster beds....
PBS
Newton's Apple: Black Pearls
A lab activity to illicit discussion/understanding of the way in which mollusks produce an economic product.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Animales Del Mar (Spanish)
This resource provides colorful pictures of sea animals interact with audio and the written vocabulary word as you move your mouse over the picture. This vocabulary would compliment a science unit on marine life.