Aquatic Animals Archives

Build Otto the Sea Otter

Students will create a sea otter puppet and act out how this species is essential to kelp forest habitats.

Students will mimic how boats can quickly spread invasive species to new bodies of water and how to stop a new invasion.

Students will explore their outdoor surroundings to discover and learn about local flora and fauna.

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

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

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

Students create various types of plankton with craft materials and race them in a large container of water. Slowest plankton wins!

Students build a globe to demonstrate a mass coral spawning event.

Learn about the anatomy of coral and the symbiotic relationship between corals and zooxanthellae by building an edible coral polyp.

Students create a cutout model of a clam to investigate the anatomy and physiology of these animals.