Sunday, December 20, 2015

Ocean Study Curriculum Overview

11/9
  • What do we know about oceans? What do we want to know? What/where are the oceans in the world?
  • Maps: where are the 5 oceans? Create a mini- book.
  • What sea creatures do we know? What do we want to know about them? read aloud (Wish for a Fish)
  • Discover ocean layers (chart the layers and the animals that live there--kids fill out chart on own)
  • read aloud (A Day in the Deep-- adding information that we’ve learned about layers to our chart)
  • Math connection: layers of the ocean in feet- look at a number/match it to zone

11/11
  • Ocean zones in a jar project
  • What is a habitat? What do we know about Ocean Habitats?
  • read aloud (A house for hermit crab) and activity (hermit crab fact book)/drab crab vocab
  • read aloud (anemone fish) and create an anemone facts booklet
  • mystery science video on habitats

11/16
  • What do we know about sharks? what do we want to know about sharks?
  • Addition and subtraction games using shark word problems
  • Discuss predators/prey, create an actual food chain

11/18- tide pool trip

11/23-
  • Food chain/adaptations through hands- on sea urchin activity
  • tide pool dioramas
  • Ocean animal research (pick animal/KW(L) chart)
  • shark
  • octopus
  • crab
  • squid
  • seahorse
  • anemone fish
  • whale


12/2
  • Shell investigation/-ell word family
  • ocean animal research project
  • math connection: shark teeth missing addends game
  • Reading comprehension: shells group reading passage
  • unscramble shells digraph game (sh/th/ch)


12/7-
  • ocean animal research project (research our animal’s life cycle-- look at diagrams, etc.)
  • acrostic poems about our animal
  • shark subtraction game


12/9-
  • Finish animal project poems/life cycle sheets
  • Fish for a day aquarium activity
  • Ocean animal project


12/14-
  • Finish ocean animal project presentations
  • Ocean habitats aquarium activity
  • Present projects


12/16- Aquarium of the Pacific field trip

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