Stingray Hand Puppet
joakman2016-05-11T08:57:17-04:00Stingray Hand Puppet
Purpose of activity:
Appreciation of an ocean animal, and a chance to practice craft skills such as cutting and gluing.Description of activity:
A hand puppet made from fabricTarget age group:
Ages 5-9Time needed:
This depends upon how much you have prepared ahead of time, and if you are working with...
3D Ocean Bingo
joakman2016-04-28T12:31:06-04:00Purpose of activity: To learn about the ecosystems that exist at various levels in the ocean. Description of activity: Three bingo boards "stacked" so that the bingo game is three-dimensional. The top board is the sunlight zone, the middle is the twilight zone (where there is very little light) and the...
“Bites and Pieces” (a game about sharks)
joakman2016-04-28T12:30:43-04:00Purpose of activity: Primarily to learn about twelve very different types of sharks, but secondarily to practice visual discrimination (having to look very carefully at similar shapes and determine the differences) as parts of sharks are matched up. Description of activity: Pictures of sharks are cut into three pieces. Players play...
“Fill An Ocean” (classification of marine invertebrates)
joakman2016-05-18T15:48:16-04:00Purpose of activity: To review classifcation of marine invertebrate phyla and classes Target age group: ages 8-14 Description: This is a Bingo-type game, where a Bingo is achieved by filling the four squares of one of the oceans. You can use your own pictures (I used digital pictures projected onto a screen...
Southern Ocean Card Games
joakman2019-01-31T20:21:22-05:00Southern Ocean card games
Purpose of activity: To learn about the food web in the oceans around Antarctica Description: This is a set of 36 cards and instructions for 4 games you can play with them. (The first game is an introductory activity, helping players become familiar with the creatures and the...
The Echinoderm Game
joakman2016-05-23T23:35:40-04:00The Echinoderm Game
Purpose of activity: To learn about various types of echinoderms and appreciate their beauty and diversity. Description: This is a set of 48 cards showing various kind of echinoderms: sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, sand dollars (sea biscuits), sea lilies, feather stars and crinoids. There are three activities...
“Circle of Life: Pond Edition”
joakman2016-04-28T12:28:00-04:00Purpose of activity: To reinforce learning about food webs in ponds, with a special focus on phytoplankton and zooplankton Description: Each player chooses a top predator (fish, heron, bullfrog, turtle) and must feed it by placing tokens on two food items underneath it. However, to do that, each of those creatures...
“Worm Zoo”
joakman2018-04-19T21:20:26-04:00Purpose of activity: To learn about a large variety of worms, including round worms, flat worms, annelids (earthworms, leeches and marine polychaetes) as well as some worms that are considered "minor phyla" such as the acorn worm, the horsehair worm and the peanut worm. Description of activity: There are 24 pictures cards showing each kind of worm...
Insect Activity Pages for Pre-K
joakman2016-04-28T12:26:18-04:00Target age group: Pre-K (ages 2-5) Description of activities: Each of the 6 pages contains 4 simple activities such as dot-to-dots and mazes. There is one page of simple words puzzles that requires reading. Click here to download the pages
