Only Half The Story Students choose words about shrimp biology and fishing from a list to fill in blanks in a story. A-Coming Commercial shrimping provides livelihoods for many people. Students practice solving word problems, including challenge problems involving calculating averages and percents. Students sort bird pictures into groups with common characteristics to gain an appreciation of diversity. Beaks and Feet Students match a set of beak and feet cards, representing a variety of estuarine birds, with different food types and feeding areas.
Students search for camouflaged objects and relate their experience to bird survival in an estuary.
Dangerous Journeys Students assume the roles of ducks, wind storm, predators, and hunters to examine migration hazards. Migrating Down the Flyway Students examine factors which limit or favor migration survival, measure migration distance on a map, then calculate migration duration. Food Webs 1. Stuffed-crab plans included. Students use size, shape, texture, color and weight to sort and classify shells.