Divide into groups of three or four students. Choose one of the categories shown above and research as many benefits under that heading as possible. Read labels on packaged foods and household products. Check out ocean sites on the Internet and library resources about the sea. Once the research is done, each group will summarize its findings as a list of ocean benefits and in visual form on a large sheet of paper.
Groups then take turns displaying their artwork and reporting their findings.
Arrange the artwork to produce one large mural of gifts from the sea. Follow up with a class discussion. Consider what the world would be like without oceans and their riches. Explore the idea that our acceptance of these gifts carries with it the responsibility to conserve them and use them wisely. Water, also known as H20 because of the two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom in a water molecule, flows from land to sea through the path of least resistance.