Lobsters Lesson Plans - LessonCorner

1. Dive Into Reading
...mportant step to becoming a successful reader. Fluent readers are able to read smoothly and quickly. When children are able to read fluently, they can focus more on the content of a story instead of decoding each word slowly. Materials: Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea by Cynthia Rylant, die cut lobsters, stopwatches, chart of beach for each child with various pieces of Velcro placed on them Procedure: 1. Explain to children that they have become great readers and that now we are going to work on reading so that it flows better when we read aloud. Read a sample sentence to the children. ?Boys are gi...

2. Ocean Lesson Plan, Sea Animal Life, Teaching Elementary Science Worksheets, Activity
...adults standing on each other's shoulders to stretch from the ocean floor to the surface. The deepest point in the ocean is 36,198 feet, in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. That?s the length of 120 football fields. The ocean is huge! You?ve probably seen plenty of fish, whales, dolphins, lobsters, crabs, sharks, and seals, but did you know that there are around 170,000 different animal species in the ocean? The largest known animal ever to live on Earth is the blue whale, which can reach a length of over 100 feet and weigh up to 200 tons (continued...) LESSON PRINTABLES The Vast Ocean Print...

3. COAST - Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Benthic BINGO
...specific habitat type. Several factors control the distribution and diversity of benthic organisms. These factors include the amount of light, salinity or salt content of the water, temperature, food/nutrient availability, and the stability and type of substrate associated with the habitat. Crabs, lobsters, and clams are benthic organisms that may be found in a rocky intertidal habitat. Some near-shore benthic habitats contain seaweeds (non-vascular plants). Kelp is an example of a multicellular seaweed and a representative of the benthic community. This species of seaweed attaches to the bottom via a...

4. Don't Buy It . Teacher's Guide . Food Advertising Tricks | PBS KIDS GO!
...s food look attractive in photographs. The aim is to make food look fresh and delicious) Why would a food company be interested in using a food stylist? Different special effects are used to enhance the look of the food during photography. Glycerin or oil is used to put shine on fruits, vegetables, lobsters and crabs. Hamburgers are propped up with toothpicks and cardboard. Plastic ice cubes are used in place of the real thing. Meat is "cooked" with a blowtorch. Tobacco smoke is used to make it look like steam is coming from food. Food may be sprayed with hairspray to keep it in place. _ _ _ _ Companie...

5. Magnetic Field Activities
...student will understand the direction and magnitude content of vector representations. The teacher will use a Socratic approach and guided learning methods. Project Ideas: Magnetoreceptors in animals Magnetism and bacteria Magnetism and newts Overview of animals and magnetism, especially migration Lobsters, turtles, and mollusks Rainbow trout: Walker, Michael M., Carol E. Diebel, Cordula V. Haugh, Patricia M. Pankhurst, and John C. Montgomery, 1997. "Structure and function of the vertebrate magnetic sense," Nature 390, 371. This article describes how rainbow trout can sense and respond to magnetic fie...

6. Fulcrums in our Body
...f that lever. 3. The students will wiggle that body part so they can see how a lever arm pivots on a fulcrum. X Guided Practice: 1. The teacher will hand out a worksheet with animals and people s bodies parts on it that are levers and fulcrums. 2. The worksheet can include animals such as crabs and lobsters whose claws are levers. 3. The student s must label levers and fulcrums on the objects shown on the worksheet. 4. The teacher will walk around and review the worksheets with the students. X Independent Practice: 1. The teacher will divide students into partners. She will give them the directions lis...

7. Curriculum - Exploring the Ocean Realm Unit 2: Saving Sharks - Myths and Facts About This Apex Predator - Teacher Resources at BeWorldWise.org
...other large seals), dolphins, marlin, tuna Megamouth Shark: length ? 15 feet. Eats plankton. Horn Shark: length ? 4 feet. Eats sea urchins. Angel Shark: length ? 6 feet. Eats small fish and crustaceans. Cigar Shark: length ? 9 inches. Eats squid, small fish. Wobbegong: length ? 10 feet. Eats crabs, lobsters, octopus, small fish. Basking Shark: length ? 48 feet. Eats plankton. Saw Shark: length ? 4 feet. Eats small fish, invertebrates and crustaceans in the sediment Zebra Shark: length 11 feet. Eats shellfish and small fish Vocabulary pelagic habitat apex predator carnivore niche consumer adaptation pla...

8. Oceans and Sea Creatures
...under the sea. The students traced sea creatures using templates or drew and cut-out sea life. Then the sea creatures were taped onto the windows. We made individual aquariums using blue painted paper plates, sea shells, Gold Fish, construction paper to make seaweed, and twist tops that looked like lobsters from children's plastic juice bottles. Assorted items were glued to the plates. Then the plates were covered with the blue plastic wrap. The children brought sea shells to school. We placed them in our science center and identified them using an assortment of sea shell books from our school library....

9. Blue Planet: Seasonal Seas
...peratively and showed poor research skills in both print and Internet resources; created an incomplete invertebrate summary and an illustration highlighting few or no facts from their research. Back to Top Vocabulary exoskeleton Definition: The hard covering or shell of a crustacean's body Context: Lobsters have soft bodies, so their exoskeletons protect them from predators. invertebrates Definition: Animals without a backbone, such as the octopus, sea anemone, and starfish Context: Marine invertebrates have different forms of movement, including jet propulsion and drifting with currents. jet propulsio...

10. Animal Life Cycles
...evices should be used which include life cycle charts, descriptions and measurements where appropriate. Here are a few activities to get you rolling.... The Life Cycle in Reality/Hands-On Experiences 1. Set up an aquarium for raising brine shrimp (sea monkeys). Brine shrimp are related to crabs and lobsters in a group commonly known as crustaceans. 2. For each student or study group, place two or three mealworms in a capped jar. Provide the mealworms with bran and a slice of raw potato or apple. The mealworm is the larva stage of a beetle. Before reaching this final step in the metamorphosis, the mealw...