(If you get part way through the presentation and the stop action video will not play you can download and show it separately by right clicking this link ( Building Barrel System video) and choosing "save target as" to save it to your hard drive and run it from there in a separate window.
| Grade Level |
Lesson Title |
| K-12 |
Classroom Activities from the New England Aquarium |
PreK-3 |
Story of U.S. Farm Raised Catfish Coloring Book |
| K-3 |
Saltwater Density vs Fresh Water - The Weight of Water |
| k-4 |
Build a fish - body parts and camouflage - MARE Berkeley |
| K-6 |
The water cycle |
| K-6 |
The water cycle bracelet |
| K-6 |
The water cycle song |
| K-6 |
The Aquaculture Bracelet -Lesson Plan |
| K-6 |
Vertebrates vs Invertebrates |
| K-6 |
Web activity - Fish Olympics |
| K-6 |
Ocean Animal Aquarium - Teachers Guide, lessons and activities |
| K-12 |
Chicago's Shedd Aquarium Lesson Plans |
| 1-3 |
Personal Aquariums - Art activity |
| 1-5 |
Construction of a classroom aquarium -
Language Arts, Math, & Social Studies |
| 2-12 |
Interactive flash presentation on how to build a small recirculating aquaculture system- View Online
Download Interactive presentation
- PC or Mac Note: these files are in .zip format at apprx 30MB
Worksheet, Key, Quiz |
| 2-6 |
Aquatic Habitats - Exploring Desktop Ponds - Link to GEMS site |
| 2-7 |
Fish Behavior Bingo - from Seaworld.org |
| 3-5 |
National Geographic - Aquarium Habitats Lesson Plan |
| 3-5 |
A Fish Tale Lesson Plan - Osmosis and fish respiration |
| 3-5 |
Something Fishy - The life cycle of a salmon |
| 3-5 |
Underwater animals (insulating property of whale blubber) |
| 3-5 |
Fishy Science - An Aquatic Life Unit for the 3rd-5th grade Classroom |
| 3-6 |
3 lesson activities including Aquaculture, Rainbow trout tales, and pyramid power (nutrition and fish) |
| 3-8 |
Pond in a Bottle |
| 3-8 |
Water, Water Everywhere Water availability on conservation (National Wildlife Federation) |
| 4-5 |
Aquarium Web Quest for 4th Graders |
| 4-8 |
Biologist in training - hands-on exploration of aquatic habitats (US Fish and Wildlife service. Includes:
BiT Activity Booklet
Aquatic Food Web
Build a Fish
Design a Fish
Scale Tales
Aquatic Lap Sit - Aquatic Adaptations
Deadly Multiplication Healthy Habitats
Go Fish Aquatic Adaptations
Stream Study
Complete (aquatic) Biologist in Training package with all components |
| 4-8 |
Fish - Fish of the Great Lakes |
| 4-8 |
Fish - Fins, Tales and Scales |
| 4-8 |
Fish - Preserving Bio diversity |
| 4-8 |
Fish - Fish Habitat |
| 4-8 |
Fish - Great Lakes, Great Careers |
| 4-12 |
The Wildlife Forever, State-Fish Art Project Lesson Plan, Something's Fishy Excellent 25 page lesson plan with activities and hand outs. |
| 5 |
Wetland Web of Life |
| 5 |
Precious Water - Is it a need, a right, or a commodity |
| 5-7 |
Pond Ecology Curriculum - Yale Univ. |
| 5-7 |
Beans About Water - The properties of water and changes in matter 5th-7th grade classrooms |
| 5-8 |
Fish Farming Web Quest |
| 5-8 |
Aquatic Times - Create Aquatic Theme newspaper
Link to more information about Project Wild Aquatic |
| 5-10 |
Activity - Virtual fish tank - build your own fish |
| 6-8 |
Marine Aquaculture: Raising salt water fish in your classroom MIT Sea Grant |
| 6-8 |
NOAA- Ocean Data Education Project - using data from NOAA to examine estuarine water quality |
| 6-8 |
A Fishing Trip into the Aquaculture Industry - From the Learning Center of Team AgEd and FFA Learn |
| 6-8 |
Coastal Connections Curriculum Unit (from Maine) |
| 6-8 |
Water filtration - building a simple water filter |
| 6-8 |
Mapping Fish Habitats - Link to GEMS site |
| 6-8 |
Sea Change -(changing water temp vs air temp) |
| 6-8 |
Drink up - (build a desalination still) |
| 7-12 |
Bio diversity and global change: The Lobster Die-off.
Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 |
| 7-9 |
Aquatic Habitats |
| 7-9 |
Something Fishy Web Quest - setting up an aquarium decision making |
| 7-12 |
Constructing a simple and inexpensive recirculating aquaculture system for classroom use - a step by step guide. |
| 8-12 |
Pond in a Bucket video presentation
(take a quiz, key, word search, ws -key) |
| 8-12 |
Aquaculture as Sustainable Agriculture (National Council for Ag Education)
Unit 1 - Is Aquaculture Sustainable
Lesson 1 - What does sustainable food production mean?
Lesson 2 - Living without enough protein
Lesson 3 - Protein from aquaculture
Lesson 4 - Competing for protein |
| 8-12 |
Aquaculture as Sustainable Agriculture (National Council for Ag Education)
Unit 2 - Making Aquaculture Pay
Lesson 1 - Integrated aquaculture systems
Lesson 2 - Aquaculture around the world
Lesson 3 - Producing what people want |
| 8-12 |
Aquaculture as Sustainable Agriculture (National Council for Ag Education)
Unit 3 - Aquaculture and the environment
Lesson 1 - Conserving water resources
Lesson 2 - Water quality
Lesson 3 - Who's eating the fish? |
| 8-12 |
Aquaculture as Sustainable Agriculture
Unit 4 - Approaches to managing resources
Lesson 1 - Managing aquaculture resources |
| 8-12 |
Physics of Saltwater Activities |
| 8-12 |
Crawfish Farming curriculum module and teaching guide |
| 8-12 |
Shellfish Aquaculture curriculum module/lesson plans |
| 8-12 |
Baitfish Aquaculture curriculum module |
| 8-12 |
Aquatic Plant Aquaculture |
| 8-12 |
Carp Aquaculture curriculum module |
| 8-12 |
Ornamental and tropicals |
| 8-12 |
Red Drum Curriculum Module |
| 8-12 |
Striped Bass curriculum - lesson plans |
| 8-12 |
Sturgeon Aquaculture curriculum - lesson plans |
| 8-12 |
Tilapia Curriculum Species Module |
| 8-12 |
Trout - Includes, Life cycle, opportunities, and production |
| 8-12 |
Walleye Aquaculture curriculum - lesson plans |
| 8-12 |
Yellow Perch Aquaculture curriculum - lesson plans |
| 8-12 |
Crawfish Farming Aquaculture Curriculum guide 27pg. |
| 8-12 |
Red Drum Curriculum Module |
| 8-12 |
Tilapia Curriculum Species Module |
| 8-12 |
Pond Water Survey Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan pdf, worksheet 1, wkst 2, wkst 3 |
| 8-12 |
Aquaculture production systems overview - 14 min video presentation
Worksheet 1 - Systems review
|
| 9-2 |
The Fish Trade -
examine the interdependence of global trade in the context of the economic and social aspects of fisheries and aquaculture. |
| 9-12 |
The National Council for Agriculture Education Aquaculture Curriculum Guide (See lesson plans here) |
| 9-12 |
Spawning Oysters by thermal shock - 5 minute video
Worksheets - Word Scramble, Word Scramble key, Quiz, Quiz key
Supplemental Reading
Cultivating the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica
Oyster Hatchery Techniques
Oyster products food safety |
| 9-12 |
Channel Catfish Lesson Plan Series w/ animations
4 Complete lesson plans with resources
Farming the waters, Channel catfish life history and biology
Brood fish Management, Feeding catfish in commercial ponds |
| 9-12 |
Introducing Florida Aquaculture Florida State Agriculture Response Team - includes lesson plan, power point and workbook |
| 9-12 |
Bioluminescence and Deep Sea Camouflage - lab activity/lesson plan |
| 9-12 |
Aquatic animal disease - Florida State Agriculture Response Team, includes lesson plan, power point and workbook |
| 9-12 |
Lesson plans related to the AL Aqua science Elective Course |
| 9-12 |
Aquaculture production in the classroom |
| 9-12 |
NEW BIODIVERSITY ONLINE SECONDARY MODULE
Exploring Environmental Issues: Bio diversity is a new addition to the
PLT collection that uses bio diversity as a window through which
secondary students investigate the environment. Educators and students
get a broader view of concepts and larger connections - not just
biological, but political, cultural, ethical, and economic as well. |
| 9-12 |
Classroom Aquaponics: Exploring Nitrogen Cycling in a Closed System Aquaponics |
| 9-12 |
Interactions of pH, Alkalinity and hardness in water |
| 9-12 |
Global Water Sampling Project |
| 9-12 |
Something Fishy Web Quest - Students conduct research on the web and in print to establish a community aquarium system. Suggested level 9-12. |
| 9-12 |
Going Global - global food needs of humans and production of that food. |
| 9-12 |
Aquatic Ecosystem in a Bottle |
| 9-12 |
Conch in the classroom (8 lessons with supplemental materials) |
| 9-12 |
Biology Project "Gone Fishing" Very Cool web site
Oceanography through time
Careers in Oceanography |
