Oceans ED Kendra Combs Casey McBride 2nd Grade

Table of Contents  American Heritage activities websites  People in Societies activities websites  World Interactions activities websites  Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities activities websites

Table of Contents Cont’d.  Democratic Processes activities websites  Decision Making and Resources activities websites  Science, Technology, and Society activities websites

Materials  Library books  art materials  ocean sounds CD  CD player  Internet access  magazines  writing materials  journals  world maps  cut outs of different types of fish  blue jello  gummy candy  clear plastic cups

Objectives  Students will use various techniques and skills to perform each instructional objective from each of the strands.  Students will record and review their work on a daily basis.  Students will create a portfolio of their work relating to the ocean unit to be displayed at the end of the unit.  Students will write messages for a suggestion box relating to the unit.  Students will pass an oceans evaluative test with 90% accuracy.

American Heritage

Activities  Students will go to oceanlinks site and report the weather on one American beach.  Students will go to the oceanoasis site and locate the beach featured on the site on a map.  After reading and looking at a book about Christopher Columbus, students will draw a map of the ocean that he sailed on.  Research and find out the difference between the length of time it took C. Columbus to travel over the ocean and how long it would take him today.  Write a fictional story about a day at the nearest ocean.

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People in Societies

Activities  Research the Christmas customs of countries bordering oceans and if these customs have been influenced by their proximity to the water.  Show pictures to the students of an ocean that has been polluted with trash. Have them draw pictures of the way the oceans should look if people would stop littering.  Students will research a ocean occupation and report their findings to the class.  Students will study a culture dependent on the oceans and construct a book or collage on their findings.  In groups, students will think of three different ways that other people might use the oceans. They will write these ideas down and present them to their group members.

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World Interactions

Activities  Students will create a map of the world depiciting how much of the world is covered with water.  Students will create the classroom into an “ocean” and properly locate the four oceans.  In groups students will research animal and plant life of the ocean and make a presentation to the class in the form of a book or collage.  After reading about whales at the Whale Information Network site, the students will create a graph showing the effects of commercial whaling on different species of whales. This will show students the actual number of whales that are harmed by fishing.  Have students visit the Jason project site and locate the shark tracking data files. Based on the data have students plot their own shark charts.

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Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities

Activities  Each student develops a “Ship’s Log” and will record writings, research, and observations they have noted throughout the unit.  As a class, write a letter to the Marine Conservation voicing their concerns and offering suggestions for stopping pollution to our oceans.  Students will create and sign a petition about an ocean related issue.  In small groups, students will create posters advocating marine life rights.  In small groups, students will make up lyrics to a song about dolphins and fish. The melody will be Mary Had A Little Lamb.

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Democratic Processes

Activities MStudents will vote on an ocean related issue. MStudents will stage a debate about an ocean related issue. MStudents can perform a skit with a president, senate, and people that want an ocean related law put into effect. MWith assistance, the students can look on the Internet to find organizations that fight for oceans. They must write down the web addresses. MThe students can use a map of the oceans to determine which country they think should be able to sail on the oceans and why.

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Decision Making and Resources

Activities ŽStudents will fill out a math worksheet that uses a bar graph to depict the number and types of fish in one of the oceans. ŽStudents will look at and respond in their journals to the next slide. They must think about what the slide says and how it relates to the oceans resources. ŽAfter listening to a recording of ocean sounds, students will list as many things that they think they heard. ŽUsing the class setup (in oceans) and the fish cutouts, students must engage in trades for fish by crossing oceans. Have a class discussion about the activity when it is over. ŽWrite four sentences on why we should or should not litter in the oceans.

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Science, Technology, and Society

Activities  Students will devote a part of the classroom wall as a sea creature/animal display. This will include pictures, biological facts, food chains, and life cycles.  Students will create a classroom compass on the wall and correctly position it.  Using a Venn diagram, compare two oceans and find at least three similarities and three differences.  Make a collage from magazine cut-outs that depicts many products, food or industrial, that come from the ocean.  Using blue jello, gummy candy, and clear plastic cups, make mini- oceans. Students will label and talk about their ocean.

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