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The Sea Around Us – Grade 2<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Introduction<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Conceptual Scheme<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Marine Aquaria<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Successful Fieldtripping<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Unit 1: The Ocean<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n
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   1. The World Ocean<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students use a globe to learn about the world’s oceans and their origins.
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   2. Beach Treasures<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Following a general discussion of beaches, students observe, sort, and classify objects from a particular beach.
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   3. No Place Like Home<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Safety issues are addressed and conservation practices are stressed in this important prelude to any trip to the tide pools.
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   4. It’s Happening At the Beach<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Guidelines for a class trip to the beach are presented along with a collection of interdisciplinary activities that have been successful with groups of students.
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   5. Salt Water<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Experimentation with table salt and water provides students with the opportunity to see some of the properties of sea water.
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   6. Icebergs<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Experiments with ice cubes made of both fresh and salt water lead to discoveries about icebergs and glaciers.
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   7. Making Waves<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students use their breath to generate waves in a container, simulating the action of wind on the surface of the ocean and make a simple tool for measuring wind speed.
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Unit 2: Plankton<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Sea Soup<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Plankton are collected and observed; students then construct a dramatic version of their observations.
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   2. Tiny – But Important<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students draw and measure several types of plankton, comparing their sizes to the length of the blue whale, a major plankton eater.
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Unit 3: The Kelp Forest<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Algae Are Plants, Too<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Marine algae are first compared to land plants; then, they are grouped and regrouped.
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   2. Food Chains in the Kelp Forest<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
To help them understand the inter-relationships among plants and animals, students make a variety of food chains in a study of the kelp forest.
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   3. Interdependence<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students assume the roles of sun, plants and animals and use yarn to link together in a kelp forest food web.
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   4. Who’s For Dinner?<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students assume the roles of shrimp, kelpfish, and harbor seals in this role-playing game designed to further understanding of the food chain concept.
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   5. Take a Role in the Kelp Forest<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students look at the specific habitats of the many types of animals living in the kelp forest.
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   6. Nature’s Protection<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Through readings and graphics, students examine predator-prey relationships and the stability of aquatic ecosystems in relation to their diversity.
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   7. Kelp in the Kitchen<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students discover that substances extracted from seaweeds are found in many common household foods and products.
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   8. A Kelp Forest in the Classroom<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Using a variety of materials, students construct an almost-life-size kelp forest.
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   9. Creating Kelp Creatures<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
This craft activity provides opportunities to “populate” the classroom kelp forest while studying the many interesting adaptations found in the kelp forest.
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   10. Visual Aid<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Working in small groups, students construct a simple, water-lens microscope which they use to examine small items from the kelp forest or beach.
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Unit 4: Fish Features<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Observing Living Fish<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
After observing goldfish, students mime fish body parts and behaviors.
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   2. Heads, Tails, and Scales<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
To review names and functions of the body parts, students create a fish from puzzle pieces.
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   3. Read a Fish<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Inferences made through observations of a fish’s body shape and the shape of its tail, lead to predictions of its swimming speed.
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   4. Fish In The News<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
As part of a look at camouflage strategies, students “go fishing” for newspaper fish living in a newspaper “fish pond”.
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   5. Hide and Go Fish<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Frosting and other edible decorations are used to camouflage fish-shaped cookies on a sea floor of brightly colored wrapping paper or cloth.
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   6. Going Fishing<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Using scrap paper and art materials, students create a stuffed fish for display and to reinforce the relationship between form and function in fish.
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   7. Schooling for Survival<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students simulate schooling behavior as they investigate schooling as an adaptation that helps some species of fish survive in their habitat.
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   8. Shark!<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Playing a board game gives students new information about sharks, providing them with a new appreciation of this much maligned animal.
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   9. Fishing Boats<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Using milk cartons and classroom supplies students make and test a sail boat and a paddle boat.
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Unit 5: Marine Mammals<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Sea Otter Style<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students use their own bodies to gain an understanding of the importance of greater surface area in swimming; they also try getting food “sea otter style”.
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   2. Urchins, Kelp, and Otters<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
A fun card game helps reinforce the complex interrelationships among these three organisms.
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   3. Who Are Those Pinnipeds?<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Making the body parts of seals and sea lions helps students recognize the differences between them.
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   4. A Seal Pup Rescue<\/a>
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Students use their imaginations to understand the plight of a baby seal left alone on the beach and, in the process, learn the correct human response to such a situation.
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   5. Marine Mammals in the Garbage<\/a>
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Human litter is examined to understand the negative impacts we are having on marine mammal populations and to learn how to minimize that impact.
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   6. Whales Are Mammals <\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students practice classification of sea animals to better understand the differences and similarities among them.
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   7. Whale Adaptations<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
By simulating whale breathing and designing a “blubber mitt,” students experience two of the special physical features of whales.
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   8. The Oceans As Whale Habitat<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Baleen whales and their feeding habits are the subject of this four part activity.
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   9. If Humans Lived in the Sea<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students use drawings and their imaginations to determine the physical adaptations they would need to survive in the sea.
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Unit 6: The Deep Sea<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Exploring the Sea Floor<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Building a model of the landforms at the bottom of the ocean gives students a sense of the many mountains, valleys, plains and volcanoes to be found there.
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   2. Deep In the Ocean, the Pressure’s On<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Students conduct a variety of experiments to understand the increase of pressure with depth in the ocean.
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   3. Creatures of the Deep Sea<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
Creating models of deep sea fish and simulating a trip in a submersible, help students learn about the adaptations found in animals living in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans.
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Unit 7: Make an Underseas World<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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   1. Zones of the Ocean Mural<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n
A whole class project enables students to dramatically present the varied habitats of the ocean.
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Unit 1: The Ocean<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 1 The World Ocean<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tMake your own globe instructions<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tEarth globe<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tGreat-Circle indicator<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tWe Care About Oceans Slide Show<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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\tSlide Script<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tThemes<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tOceans Activities<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tBibliography<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tGlossary<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tNational. Wildlife Federation Creed<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tMessage from NWF Vice President<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tIntroduction<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tCredits<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tAbout the National Wildlife Federation<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 2 Beach Treasures<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tRoot words<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 4 It\u2019s Happening At the Beach<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tEnduring litter<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Unit 2: Plankton<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 2 Tiny – But Important<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tPlankton identification sheet 1<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
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Unit 3: The Kelp Forest<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 5 Take a Role in the Kelp Forest<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tKelp forest canopy image<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tKelp forest mini-tour<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tWe Care About Oceans Slide Show<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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\tSlide Script<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tThemes<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tOceans Activities<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tBibliography<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tGlossary<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tNational. Wildlife Federation Creed<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tMessage from NWF Vice President<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tIntroduction<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tCredits<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tAbout the National Wildlife Federation<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 6 Nature\u2019s Protection<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tFish drawings<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
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Activity 8 A Kelp Forest in the Classroom<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tKelp forest mini-tour<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tNational Wildlife Federation Kelp Habitat slide show<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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\tSlide Script<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\t Marine Debris and Entanglement slide show<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\t Marine Debris slide show script<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Unit 4: Fish Features<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 3 Read a Fish<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tFish card set<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 7 Schooling for Survival<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tSwimmy activities<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 8 Shark!<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tSharks and Their Relatives part 1<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tSharks and Their Relatives part 2<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tSharks and Their Relatives part 3<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tFood chain activity<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Unit 5: Marine Mammals<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 1 Sea Otter Style<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tCalifornia sea lion image<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 4 A Seal Pup Rescue<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tSeal images<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 5 Marine Mammals in the Garbage<\/b><\/dt>\n
\t Marine Debris and Entanglement slide show<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\t Marine Debris slide show script<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tEnduring litter<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 8 The Oceans As Whale Habitat<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tWhale feeding habits<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tFeeding cards<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tGray whale migration routes<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tOrigami whale<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 9 If Humans Lived in the Sea<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tKelp forest diver image<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Unit 6: The Deep Sea<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 1 Exploring the Sea Floor<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tHow to find marine information<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 2 Deep In the Ocean, the Pressure\u2019s On<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tBathysphere image<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Activity 3 Creatures of the Deep Sea<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tDeep-sea exploration<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tDeep-sea fish cards<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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Unit 7: Make an Underseas World<\/b><\/font><\/dt>\n

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Activity 1 Zones of the Ocean Mural<\/b><\/dt>\n
\tLife in Zones of the ocean<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n
\tOcean zones information cards<\/a><\/i><\/dd>\n

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