Water  Habitats

• Experiments:  What is the Difference?  compares salt water to fresh water

                              That Sinking Feeling/Sink or Float  - salt water vs. fresh water

                               Freezing and Floating -

                                Which is Which?

Fresh Water

• Read Swimmy, Fish is Fish

• Get books from book room

• Graph different flavors of fish crackers

• See video - Ponds and Rivers

• See video - Mrs. Frizzle Goes Upstream

Salt Water

• Read Henry's Wrong Turn

• Do experiment with cucumber and showing the importance of the blow hole

• Experiment - Voyage to the bottom of the ocean

• Make a shark

• See Oceans video

• Make a sea life mural using sponge fish and paint

• Make and eat edible oceans

            Make berry blue jello and insert gummy bear fish in a clear plastic cup

• Assign ocean animals and run information from Enchanted Learning .  Students research animal and write a riddle.  Students will then make a pop-up with their animal attached.

Example:  I live in the Arctic Ocean.

                 I have a long hollow tooth.

                I am 26 feet long.

                I weigh almost 2 tons.

                I eat fish, squid, and shrimp.

                What am I?    A Narwhal Whale.

Other websites:

http://www.neok12.com/Oceans.htm

http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/free-online-movies.php?movie=Fish

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/Videos/Animals/Fish/Shark.htm

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/Videos/Animals/Fish/FishVideoIndex.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/sharks.shtml

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