Download This Full Lesson: Plant Something for ME – Math PreK-2
Lesson Description: Students will be able to create a pattern using multicolored and/or multi shaped leaves or flowers or plants or seeds.… view full description & alignments
Pollinator Lesson 2 – Signs and Signals
Download This Full Lesson: Pollinator Lesson 2 – Signs and Signals
Lesson Description: (Follows “The Power of Pollination” Lesson) – Students will learn the variety of ways that flowers send messages to pollinators to ensure their own reproduction..… view full description & alignments
Pollinator Lesson 1 – The Power of Pollination
Download This Full Lesson: Pollinator Lesson 1 – The Power of Pollination
Lesson Description: Students will learn how pollination yields fruit via insect services.… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 6. Crab Soccer
Download This Full Lesson: Crab Soccer
Lesson Description: Students play a game using crab-like movement. They will then compare crab to human movement noting anatomical differences… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 5. Maine Tide Pools
Download This Full Lesson: Tide Pools
Lesson Description: Students learn how tide pools are formed and to identify many of the creatures living in the tide pool environment.… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 4. Ocean Zones
Download This Full Lesson: Ocean Zones
Lesson Description: Become familiar with common ocean organisms… view full description & alignments
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 1. Creature Feature
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
Aquaculture Lesson (K-2) – 7. Fish Printing
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
Aquaculture Lesson (MS/HS) – 3. Marine Ecosystems
Download This Full Lesson: Marine Ecosystems
Lesson Description: Students will gain a better understanding of the intricacies within the Gulf of Maine marine ecosystem after completing this lesson. A classic example of how small changes can affect an entire ecosystem is the sea urchin-kelp story in Maine. Following the collapse of the cod fishery in Maine, green sea urchin populations exploded. The ecosystem became an urchin-dominated system. In the 1980s, fishermen discovered the high value of harvesting sea urchins and the aggressive overharvesting of the green sea urchin resulted in massive declines along the coast. Because urchins are grazers … view full description & alignments