Oceans

Recommended Sites for Teachers

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/planetocean/

This website explores deep blue ocean. There are other links available on this page for teachers to view as well. General facts about oceans and the ocean life can be found at this site as well. If you have any questions about oceans, you can send a question to Ann McGovern who is an author of children’s books on oceans. Resources and teacher tips are available as well.

http://kids.discovery.com/KIDS/sharkcam.html?ct=3a78bc4d

Students can access this website and be able to view the Shark Camera. There is also some interesting information on sharks that students will be introduced to.

http://www.lycos.alfy.com/teachers/teach/thematic_units/Oceanography/OCN_1.asp

This website is amazing!!!!!! Alphy takes you on a journey through a variety of oceanography sites. Students can play games and read stories as well. Students will be captivated with the graphics and the tasks they can complete.

http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/ocean.htm

This site is based on a thematic unit on oceans. There are many lesson plan ideas that tie into all subject areas. There are also many ideas on how to decorate your classroom to fit the theme. There are also many resources in terms of books, videos, and the internet.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/bottledocean.html

This site includes a pollution activity to carry out in the classroom. Along with the experiment are many extension activities, vocabulary, links, and a section on careers related to pollution.

http://www.mcps.org/ces/connect/ocean/frames.html

The unit plan on this site includes thirty lessons and many resources. It also connects the grade five oceans unit with the grade three unit on water and the grade four unit on weather.

http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/ocean.shtml

This is a lesson for grades 4-8 where the students build a model of the ocean floor out of papier-mache.

http://www.schoolnet.ca/vp-pv/ocean/

This site offers many links to thematic units, lesson plans, teacher resources, and useful informational web sites. This site has every ocean topic possible.

http://www.ocean.com

This website will be completed soon in 2001. From watching the preview, it appears as though this website will contain some valuable information.

http://peoria.k12.il.us/shwhite/oceanWQ.html

Ocean Explorers Webquest for students to complete. This webquest is designed for fifth grade, but can be modified for other grade levels. The graphics look great and it looks like fun!!

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/oceanpollution/

This webquest is designed mainly for the grades four to six. It should identify the relationship between humans, animals and the ocean. The main purpose is to show the effects of pollution on oceans.

http://www.capaldi.com/oceanpictures.htm

Fantastic variety of “real” pictures of both the ocean and the life with in it.