Time
Required: Three sessions (times will vary)
Objectives
Students will
- compare
and contrast two water habitats
- research
and classify plants and animals
- act out
the Bay food web and diagram the flow of energy through it
- discuss
the impact of pollution, loss of underwater grasses, and over-fishing
on the Bay’s animal resources
- identify
and classify plants and animals found in a pond ecosystem and analyze
data.
Related
Standards of Learning
| Science |
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3.1.a;
3.1.g; 3.1.j; 3.5.a; 3.5.b; 3.5.c; 3.6.a; 3.10.a; 3.10.d;
4.1.a;
4.1.b; 4.5.b; 4.5.c; 4.5.d; 4.8.b;
5.1.e; 5.1.f
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| Mathematics |
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3.21;
4.19; 4.20;
5.18 |
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| English |
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3.1.c;
3.7.a; 3.7.b; 3.10.b;
4.1.b; 4.5.d; 4.5.e; 4.6.b; 4.6.c; 4.7.c;
4.8.a;
5.1.a; 5.6.f; 5.8.b;
6.5.a; 6.5.d |
Materials
- Crabbing
in the Bay (PDF only)
See instructions for assembling
this booklet.
- books
and other reference materials on Bay plants and animals
(see Resources)
- hole-punchers
- Lily
Pad Pond, by Bianca Lavies (see Resources)
- wildlife
guidebooks (see Resources)
- birdsong
CD and portable player (optional)
- 2
long-handled nets (optional)
- digital
camera (optional)
- tape
recorder (optional)
- plaster
of Paris and a flexible plastic bucket
to mix it in at the pond site (optional)
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| For
each student: |
- construction
paper, drawing materials, and string
- graph
paper
- chalk
- paper
to record data
- clipboards
(optional)
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