Sea Animal Links

Updated March 20, 2002

Blue Marlin from Ask  Jeeves

Fabulous Fish

Jelly fish facts about the jellyfish

Fun Facts about Jellyfish

Octopuses

more octopi info

Butterfly Fish

more butterfly fish info

GREAT Piranha site

Piranha

Sea Quest Site

Seahorse Sea World information about seahorses

more seahorse info from Nova Online

Ocean Link

Sea Lion

Seals and Sea Lions

 

Electric Eel

Sea Otter , Seals, Sea Lions and Dugong

In Search of theGiant Squid  great information

 Giant Squid -more information

Sea Turtles info on

 sea turtles ---more information

Killer Whales- information from the Vancouver Aquarium

more info on Killer Whales-more info

 

Starfish

more starfish in- more information

 

 

Sea Anemone

OCEAN-THEMED SONGS:

 http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1988.html

 http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/songspoems62.html http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/songspoems21.html http://www.track0.com/canteach/elementary/songspoems61.html http://www.angelfire.com/la/kinderthemes/ofingerplays.html

From fish songs to ocean exploration or remembering the names of the world's oceans, find songs to use in your elementary classroom.

 OCEANS AND UNDERSEA LIFE: 

http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/ocean.htm 

This thematic unit offers ocean activities to cover everything from bulletin boards and classroom decor, to student ocean rewards, to journal topics, math exercises, ocean poetry, and more.

UNDER THE SEA:: http://www.angelfire.com/ma/1stGrade/pageocean.html   Find several marine-themed poems to learn with your primary class, along with class projects and hands-on activities to explore ocean life.

 

LABEL THE WORLD'S OCEANS: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/label/labeloceans.shtml  Chances are your elementary students can already point to the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, but many still don't recognize the Indian or the Arctic Ocean. Print out this world map and have them practice labeling the oceans, recognizing direction and a compass rose, locate the equator, and learn how to divide the hemispheres.

KINDERGARTEN TIDEPOOL BOXES: http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/itec815_s99/gfrye/tidepoolbox.html Shoeboxes (or other similar small boxes) will be paint- ed to form the "tide pool" backdrop, while egg carton barnacles, clay starfish, and toothpick sea urchins will all find a new home in your student tide pool  projects.

OCEAN DIORAMA: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/Oceandiorama.shtml Print out these whales and sharks for your students to color and cut out. Then, using a shoebox, your class can work in groups to create an undersea environment with these diorama instructions.

ALL ABOUT WHALES: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/alphawhales.shtml  

Students will choose a whale and click for more information. Anatomy, size comparisons, whale food chains, habitats, classification, whale activities, and print- outs are all available at this excellent resource site for the elementary classroom.

 

TIDEPOOL PROJECT: http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/tidepoolproject/teacherpage.html

 First and second grade students will create a story-- using technology resources--about a sea star that uses the characteristics of a tide pool to help it survive.

 

WHALE AND OCEAN UNIT: 

http://www.sillybilly.com/ocean.html 

Third grade classes will learn about whales and their habitats, creating fact cards and displays of under- water environments to present to the class. Activities are cross-curricular; most can be used for earlier grades as well.

 

CORAL REEF CENTERS:

 http://www.abcteach.com/CoralReef/CoralReefTOC.htm 

Explore coral reefs in your classroom with the numerous activities offered at this site. Experiment with Float or Sink--journal and record templates are included--fill out coral reef Did You Know printables, or compare environments with Venn Diagrams.

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed these  links!!