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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