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Lesson Plans and Activities


Constructing a simple and inexpensive recirculating aquaculture system for classroom use - a step by step guide.

University of Florida ( IFAS ) Aquaculture Curriculum for Educators - contains 8 complete modules with activities, power points, and support materials

Lesson Plans

Grade Level Lesson Title
K-12 Classroom Activities from the New England Aquarium
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
2-6 Aquatic Habitats -  Exploring Desktop Ponds - Link to GEMS site
2-7 Fish Behavior Bingo - from Seaworld.org
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
4-6 Fun with fish - Agricultural Literacy Aquaculture Unit for the 4-6th Grade
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 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.
7-12 Aquaculture Power Point Slide Sets (35 topics)
8-12 Physics of Saltwater Activities
8-12 Crawfish Farming Aquaculture Curriculum guide 27pg.
8-12 Ag lesson plans in power point format (100+)
8-12 Pond Water Survey Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan pdf, worksheet 1, wkst 2, wkst 3
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

Other K-12 Aquaculture Curriculum Resources

Aquaculture curricula materials from State University of NY (SUNY) Cobleskill

Environmental and Aquatic on line game resources from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Aquaculture Curricula Resource Guide - A Resource Tool for the Aquaculture Educator

New England Aquarium - Education and Activities

Aquaculture Science Textbook by Del Mar Publishing

Farming the Waters: Aquaculture, Agriculture Education Video with sample clip

Aquaponics.com DVD and Curriculum Material

Ohio State University - Curriculum Materials Service - aquaculture materials

C.O.O.L Classroom (Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory)

Kentucky State University - K-12 Aquaculture Education Teaching Resources
Education Resources for Aquaculture
Aquaculture software index
Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Education Center

Planet H2O on public television circles the globe to bring young viewers the story of the world's most vital resource

Aquaculture and Fisheries Management a new curriculum guide for aquaculture and fisheries science.

Maryland Sea Grant - Marine Education Interactive Lessons, Bio films and Bio diversity, What is the key to classification, Oysters in the classroom.

Online Field Guide to Fishes

 

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