Students construct a working model of the daily tidal cycle. Bingo game to familiarize students with marine animals. Classification of marine animals' activity. An activity and poem designed to introduce younger students to the ocean and its treasures. An activity designed to increase students' observation skills, including a language arts extension.
Students can learn common names of intertidal organisms using simple line drawings.
Students learn about Oregon's commercial fisheries and fishing boats while constructing paper models of boats. By spawning mussels in the classroom, students will understand methods of reproduction in mollusks. This outdoor game actively involves youngsters in the process of predator-prey relationships. They also learn about population changes and scientist's methods of estimating sizes of animal populations. A classroom activity that creates in students an awareness of feeding adaptation in marine mammals.