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Garbage Maze

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this cat and garbage maze puzzle worksheet, students help a cat figure out the best route through a maze to get to the fish bones he dropped out of a garbage can.
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Acting Like a Bunch of Animals: Fables and Human

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
The video "The Tales of Aesop" traces for viewers the history of fables and identifies their characteristics. The class then goes to the web site "The Fisherman and the Little Fish" where they examine the classic and a modern version of...
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Food Chain

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the cycle of how each living thing gets food. In this food chain unit, students participate in four lesson plans that highlight animal vocabulary, habitats, and the role of humans in our ecosystem. Students demonstrate...
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Ancient Creature of the Deep

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the coelacanth, a living fossil, with a moray eel and a bull shark. They complete a Fish Anatomy worksheet while researching the skeleton, body coverings and buoyancy of each fish.
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Drawing from Life: Tissue Paper Collage

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners watch a video about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and discuss her work. They draw flowers plants and fish and use collage techniques imitating O'Keeffe's style.
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Somthing's Fishy

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, using drawing tools on the computer, or with paper and pencil, diagram and label a fish.
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Numbers One To Ten

For Teachers K
Students read, write, and identify whole numbers one through ten. They explore a variety of websites and complete a WebQuest, count fish and match the numbers to the correct number of fish, and complete a fish counting worksheet.
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Underwater vision

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students hypothesize what they expect to see on the fabric under each different color or light. For example: under what color light do they expect the fish to be brightest before looking at an ocean scene.
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One Thing Leads to Another

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders rediscover cause and effect situations using the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. They gain an understanding of how one thing leads to another.
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The Incredible Journey

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study salmon and steelhead. They play a game in which they act out the salmon and steelhead journey from their spawning ground, to the open ocean, and then back to the spawning ground again. They identify obstacles these fish...
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Wetland Safari!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify how humans, fish, plants, birds, insects and other wildlife benefit from wetland environments. They observe a wetland and its inhabitants, draw a migration map that represents how birds use wetlands in traveling long...
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Biology: Natural Selection

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore evolutionary processes and theories using the spotted fish applet. They observe what happens to fish in a closed environment with both food and predators. Students run the model several times and answer questions about...
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Ratification & Review

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students work with their parents to decorate strips of construction paper in primary colors to represent one family member per link on the chain. They sing a gathering song and all share their family chains. They read the story of the...
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Animal Playing Cards

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students research animal characteristics including information about mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish. They place the information into a database and then, create playing cards using the information.
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How Big is a Crowd?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare the relative sizes of the five Great Lakes and their human populations. They describe some of the problems that arise when many people depend on a limited resoure. Students discuss how the Great Lakes and the...
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Community Art Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students and community members plan and take part in a community art project designed to celebrate salmon and steelhead fish and their connection to the local community.
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Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders review the needs of their community and salmon in a local creek. Using information they gathered, they design and implement a project to restore salmon and steelhead back to the local watershed. They identify threats to the...
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What If the Reef Dies?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete four activities to investigate how reef ecology can change. They perform experiments to show how sewage discharge can affect a marine ecosystem, look at substances that don't dissolve in water, examine wave action...
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Through the Day With Frog- Full Color Copy

For Teachers K - 1st
In this reading worksheet, students create their own simple book by stapling together the 10 colorful pages. The story depicts children enjoying activities which begin with the letter F: fishing, football, floating. It ends with the...
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The Letter "O"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students color in the letter "o" and decorate it according to the theme of the ocean that includes fish and a boat.
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Kidney and Related Concepts

For Students 9th - 12th
In this kidneys worksheet, students review the function of the kidneys including what happens when the kidneys stop working. Students also compare kidney function in fish, frogs, and kangaroo rats. This worksheet has 86 fill in the blank...
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Numbers and Number Parts to 10

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this counting in groups worksheet, students find the number counts for the separate fish in the fish tank. The total number of animals in the tank equals ten. Students solve six problems.
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Counting From 1 to 10

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting worksheet, students work with the number 1. They write the number one in each box next to pictures that are shown such as a fish, a plane, and a computer. They total up the number of pictures.
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The Letter F

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this letter f worksheet, students color large upper and lower case letters, then color a picture of a fish. A reference web site for additional activities is given.