Ages 6 to 9 Archives

How Long am I?

With just a simple rope, students can gain perspecitive on how big some of our ocean’s largest animals are.

Learn about our polar regions’ unique habitat and wildlife through crossword puzzles, word searches and other fun activities.

Through word searches, matching and other fun games learn about these bustling cities of marine life and how to protect them.

Using materials and sand found on the beach, kids can create pieces of art

Through musical chairs, learn about hermit crabs and the challenges they face when they need to find a new shell home.

Students identify what kind of consumer their marine animal is by examining the prey items they find in a Jell-O filled “stomach”.

Students will learn about the importance of oysters to estuarine ecosystems and to the community.

With small mirrors and a paper towel tube, students build monoculars to view their surroundings from the perspective of a whale.

An activity that demonstrates how baleen whales, such as Right Whales, use skim feeding to capture their prey.

Students create a “blubber glove” to mimic the importance of blubber to whales living in frigid water.