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In Search of Giant Squid is an English-language, multi-activity educator’s guide for learning about deep-sea exploration and giant squid. The guide is aimed at middle school students. Click to download.
Tubarões
Target Group: Primary School
Language: Portuguese
Subject: Fish
Ocean Literacy Principle: 5
Activities:
Students learn more about sharks by drawing sharks and pay special attention to the anatomy of the animals. They discuss sharks and create an awareness poster for endangered shark species.
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Materials:
Manila paper, coloring utensils, computer, projector
Teias tróficas-jogo matemático
Ciência Viva
Target Group: Middle School
Language: Portuguese
Subject: Coral Reef Life
Ocean Literacy Principle: 1,2,4,5
Activities:
Game that demonstrates the marine food chain. Students play the food chain game and realize that there are different trophic levels with very little top predators and many primary producers.
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Materials:
Paper, dried food like beans, rice and dried pasta, computer, projector.
Andando a deriva- Experimento de plâncton
Target Group: Middle School
Language: Portuguese
Subject: Plankton
Ocean Literacy Principle: 5
Activities:
Students build their own models of plankton from aluminum foil. The students are challenged to create a model that floats, but starts sinking after a while, mimicking the plankton behavior.
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Materials:
Plastic containers or buckets, aluminum foil, salt, stopwatch (or mobile phone), projector and computer or printed version of images of plankton
Les tortues marines
Target Group: Primary School
Language: French
Subject: Coral Reef Life
Ocean Literacy Principle: 5
Activities:
Booklet with pictures and information about different turtle species: Hawksbill, Green, Olive ridley and Leatherback turtle. It also explains the life cycle of turtles.
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Materials:
Computer, projector
Turtles in trouble-Game
Target Group: Middle School
Language: English
Subject: Coral Reef Life
Ocean Literacy Principle: 5,6
Activities:
Game that shows the problems turtles face when they go on land to lay their eggs.
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Materials:
30 m rope, 2 jump ropes, paper bags, beans or rice, post-its, marker
Seagrass picturebook
Tony Llobet, Pere Renom and Javier Romero
Target Group: Primary School
Language: Arabic
Subject: Seagrass
Ocean Literacy Principle: 4,5,6
Activities:
Picture book about a boy who goes snorkeling in the seagrass and encounters an amazing underwater world.
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Materials:
Computer and projector to show the book to the whole class, or printed copies.
Building a watershed-Experiment
Target Group: Primary School
Language: English
Subject: Ocean
Ocean Literacy Principle: 2,4,6
Activities:
Students build a model of their own watershed in small groups. They predict how they can prevent marine debris entering the ocean.
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Materials:
Sand, soil, gravel, water, big container (1 per group), permanent markers, spray bottles (1 per group), bottles, computer, projector.
Ocean Acidification-Experiment
Target Group: Primary School
Language: English
Subject: Acidification
Ocean Literacy Principle: 1,4,5,6
Activities:
Students do an experiment to compare healthy shells and shells that have been affected by acidification.
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Materials:
Thin shells (you can ask your students to collect a few shells), vinegar, water, heavy books or rocks, containers.
Dhyum the Dugong-Picture Book
Target Group: Primary School
Language: English
Subject: Marine Mammals
Ocean Literacy Principle: 5,6
Activities:
Picture book about Dhyum the Dugong. The book describes the life of the dugong.
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Materials:
Computer and projector to show the book to the whole class or one or more printed copies.