A hands-on bar graph activity for preschool through 1st grade: count ocean animals and insects, color the graphs, and play a spinner game. Answer key included.
This Ocean Animal Habitat Worksheet has 1st graders circle the animals that live in the sea, then write the three names on wide handwriting lines. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
This ocean math word problems activity for Kindergarten to 2nd grade uses 12 self-checking task cards to practice adding and taking away within 8. Answer key included.
This Deep Sea Diving numbers recognition activity has PreK-1st grade students count sea animals in ten frames around the room, with recording sheets, a practice page and answer key included.
This Ocean Easy Alphabetical Order Activity will teach your students how to put three sets of words about ocean vocabulary in alphabetical order.
This Ocean Hard Alphabetical Order Activity will teach your students how to put three sets of words about ocean vocabulary in alphabetical order.
Using this Oceans Mini Pack, students learn about Oceans through ten fun worksheets and three activities.
This Shell Beach Reading Comprehension Worksheet invites 1st grade readers to spend a sunny day at the seashore with Kaylee, then answer five questions, with an answer key for fast, easy checking.
Ocean flash cards with bright fold-over pictures of whales, crabs, octopuses and more help preschool to 2nd grade students learn sea animal words and facts. An answer key is included.
Dive in! The ocean is calling
First graders are amazed to learn that oceans cover most of our planet. They learn that ocean water is salty, that there are five oceans, and that different animals live in different parts of the sea. Sea turtles swim near the top, crabs scuttle along the shore, and some fish glow in the dark, deep down! Kids compare animal body parts, like fins, shells and tentacles, and how they help animals survive. The click comes when a child explains, "A whale has a blowhole because it needs to breathe air!"
These moves bring the ocean right into the classroom.
Make three layers on the wall: sunny top, darker middle, deep dark bottom. Kids place ocean animal pictures where they live and explain why. Sorting animals into habitats helps them connect body parts to homes.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withOcean Animal Habitat WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash an ocean animal card and ask kids to name it and tell one way its body helps it survive. Quick rounds every morning during the unit build vocabulary and science thinking.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withOcean Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Theme the whole week: ocean math in the morning, ocean reading after lunch, ocean science in the afternoon. Seeing the same topic in different subjects makes it stick.
Why it works: short practice spread over several days beats one long session, according to a large review of learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withOceans Mini PackWorkbooksOpen it →First graders love anything with sharks, shells and sea stars.
ActivitiesSolve ocean-themed word problems about fish, crabs and starfish.
Open Ocean Math Word Problems Activity →
ActivitiesVote for a favorite ocean animal and build a class bar graph together.
Open Bar Graph Activity →
AssessmentsRead a short beach story and answer questions about what happened at the shore.
Open Shell Beach Reading Comprehension Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Bar Graph Activity, Ocean Animal Habitat Worksheet and Ocean Math Word Problems Activity.
They learn that oceans are huge and salty, that different animals live in different ocean zones, and that animal body parts help them survive. Many classes also learn the names of the five oceans.
The Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Oceans. The Pacific is the biggest and deepest.
Rivers carry tiny bits of salt from rocks into the ocean. When ocean water evaporates, the salt stays behind, so over a very long time the ocean became salty.
Read ocean books, visit an aquarium or beach if you can, and talk about ocean animals' body parts. Taste a pinch of salt water so your child knows what "salty" really means.
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