A "Sea" of Great Ideas:

Here are various links to ocean teaching ideas, units, and virtual field trips.  As a volunteer at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL, I thought I'd include a picture of one of my favorite friends, a beluga whale.

Teaching Links:

The Learning Page: This site has links to free downloadable worksheets for ocean.  Worksheets are for PK-2 in language arts, math, and science.  They also have clip art pages and mural pages.  Besides ocean, they have dinosaurs, zoo animals, and insects/spiders.

Teaching in a Work of Heart Ocean Unit: A collection of ocean ideas and links useful for any teacher.

Can Teach Songs and Poems: Looking for ocean songs and poems.  Scroll down the site for fish, whale, and other sea creature songs and poems.  This site also has a phenomenal amount of poetry for any subject area!

Teacher Features Ocean Unit: Ideas for literature and activities to complement an ocean unit.

A to Z Teacher Stuff: This page will give you many links to ocean ideas and teaching units.

Whales of the World: A whale teaching unit with ready-to-use student activities and teacher notes.

Athena Curriculum Oceans: Teaching ideas and information for grades K-12.

Education World - Celebrate the Year of the Ocean: Teaching ideas to help you celebrate the year of the ocean.

Sea World Educational Resources: Free printable units on warlus, seals, whales, ocean diversity, saving our seas, water, and many more.

Whales:  A Thematic Unit: Unit developed for grades K-8.

School Net Ocean Site: Looking for information for your ocean unit.  This site has links to many ocean-related subject areas.

Magic School Bus Ocean CD-Rom: This site has two free downloadable games and gives a "taste" of the CD-rom that is for sale.

Mrs. Seagrave's Under the Sea Unit: This site includes a teacher resource page, fishy tales, fun activities, and other links.

OCEAN LINKS:  virtual field trips, zoo, aquarium, and attraction homepages.  Links to ocean animals in their natural habitat.

Shedd Aquarium: This aquarium is located in Chicago, IL.  It has a fantastic aquarium exhibit displaying freshwater fish from the Midwest, Asia, and North America.  The Oceanarium has Pacific Coastal Dolphins, Beluga Whales, Sea Otters, Harbor Seals, a Coral Reef display, and Penguins.  Currently a special exhibit called "Seahorse Symphony" is on display.  Coming in June 2000, a massive display in the Aquarium dedicated to the 4 seasons of the Amazon will open.  Well worth a visit to Chicago to visit!

Ocean AdVENTure: With this virtual dive, you will visit the hydrothermal vents in the depths of the ocean and see some of the intersting creatures that live there.

Sea World: I visited Sea World in Orlando several years ago.  There are some great exhibits there.  If you want to study marine mammals, you are better off visiting an Aquarium.

Oceans - Encarta Online: Ocean Articles, Lesson plans, quizzes, and beautiful photographs.

Whale Club: Information on whales, dolphins, and manatees including facts, photos, multimedia, teacher and kids links.

Marine Mammals: Links to information on dolphins, sea otters, whales, seals, and other marine animals.

Ocean Planet Smithsonian: Educational materials, teaching units, and ideas from the Smithsonian Museum.

Click on the dolphin to go to ocean and fish songs, art activites, cooking, and fingerplays I have collected from various sources.  Microsoft Word document.  Many of the ideas came from the Kinder Korner e-mail list!

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