Download This Full Lesson: Ocean Zones
Lesson Description: Become familiar with common ocean organisms… view full description & alignments
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Download This Full Lesson: Ocean Zones
Lesson Description: Become familiar with common ocean organisms… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Sea Animal Movement
Lesson Description: This activity introduces youth to some of the sea animals and their movements by utilizing gross motor skills through a stretching activity.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Living vs Non Living
Lesson Description: This activity will help students to differentiate between living and non-living and to identify characteristics of living things.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Creature Features
Lesson Description: This activity serves as an introduction to some basic marine life, especially for youth who have never visited the ocean or who have not yet been introduced to the organisms that live in the marine environment. A key is included for your reference.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Sharks and Minnows
Activity Description: This activity explores the concept of interconnectedness within an ecosystem and adaptations needed for survival.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Food Chains
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This activity introduces the concept of food chains and some of the predator-prey relationships in the marine environment.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Fish printing
Activity Description: This activity introduces the concept of identifiable characteristics and provides experience using a dichotomous key. Students also engage in the art of Japanese fish printing (goyutaku).… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Activity: Reflection and Opinion Activity
Brief Description: Students are encouraged to reflect on their Kelp ME ASAP experience by reviewing their journal entries, drawings and pictures. Thoughts will be shared, then students will be asked to respond to a short survey about Kelp ME ASAP.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Activity: Games and Physical Activities
Brief Description: The games and activities can be used as formal parts of lessons, to supplement on a day when you sped through your planned activities, or as a move around break. Some have already been included in other lessons.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Activity: Cooking with Seaweed
Brief Description: Students will experience aquaculture in a new way, through the lens of cooking and eating farmed seaweed products. You can make a snack during every session or have one session focused solely on cooking. We cooked the day of our culminating event so that parents, siblings, and community members could partake of our seaweed treats as well. Please keep in mind your time constraints and the availability of adult supervision when choosing the number and difficulty of recipes you attempt.… view full description & alignments