This program will be integrated into an ocean unit in the primary classroom. Students will be presented information on how to distinguish different types of oceanlife in a lesson format. Following the lesson format, there will be a quiz/game as well a constructive session in which the students will be able to create their own species.

Objectives:

1) Distinguish among types of oceanlife and what makes them different

• Fish
  

  Scales, gills, & fins

• Sharks
  

  Cartilage, Sense of smell, How they swim, What they eat

• Octopus
  

  Tentacles, Where they live

• Dolphins
  

  Mammals, Blowholes

• Starfish
  

  Arms, How they move, Where they live, Regeneration

• Eels
  

  Similarity and difference from snakes, Where they live, How they breathe

• Lobsters
  

  Exoskelton, Where they live, How they use their claws

• Jellyfish
  

How they move, Where they live, They do not have brains

2) Answer questions about the information presented on each animals.

3) Learn about basic fish body parts by constructing their own fish online.

4) Print materials for use in the classroom

5) Students will use links to navigate from page to page

6) Students will visit other sites for information

• Life in the Ocean
  
• More Ocean Habitats
  
• Mammals in the Ocean
  
• Monterray Bay Aquarium
  
• Virtual Whale Watching
  
• Sea World