For above average students with an artistic background, ask the Principal if the students can create a permanent mural on the school wall for the ocean scene. Some of the ocean life can be created three dimensionally using newspaper, string, or foam, so that some of the features extend off the mural background. Choose a bulletin board or wall space to attach the mural background to. Have students attach ocean life or draw directly onto the background. Hang cut out images of ocean life from the ceiling to represent objects found in the water around ocean floor structure.
Ocean life objects hanging from the ceiling can be over-sized stuffed fish.
In order to accomplish this, the student should create two exact copies of a fish, cut out both images, then staple the two copies together on three sides with the drawn images faced outward. Through the open side, stuff with newspaper or old rags, then staple the fourth side.