Project WILD Aquatic Activities for Grades 5-8

Grade / Activity Title / Page / Description / Grade Level Expectations
5 – 8 / Fishy Who's Who (8) / 8 / Inquiry:Students complete an inventory of fish habitats that exist in their area. Language Arts: Students obtain information about the various fish species that occur in local habitats and locate the fish species on a map. / SCI GLE 0807.Inq.2
SCI GLE 0807.5.1
LA GLE 0801.4.2
5 – 8 / Whale of a Tail (10) / 10 / Math:Students use computational, graphing, and measuring techniques to draw or sculpture life-size replicas of whales. / SCI GLE 0807.5.3
Math GLE 0806.4.5
5 – 8 / Migration Headache (15) / 15 / Students portray migrating water birds traveling between nesting habitats and wintering grounds. / SCI GLE 0807.5.5
5 – 8 / Water Canaries (24) / 24 / Inquiry:Students investigate a stream or pond using sampling techniques. / SCI GLE 0807.Inq.2
SCI GLE 0807.9.9
5 – 8 / Hooks and Ladders (43) / 43 / Students simulate the Pacific salmon and the hazards faced by salmon in an activity portraying the life cycle of these aquatic creatures. / SCI GLE 0807.5.5
5 – 8 / Micro Odyssey (49) / 49 / Students will examine, draw, paint, and identify microorganisms in pond water. / SCI GLE 0807.5.1
5 – 8 / Pond Succession (66) / 66 / Language Arts:Students create murals showing three major stages of pond succession. / SCI GLE 0807.5.3
LA GLE 0801.7.4
7 – 8 / Eat and Glow (69) / 69 / Inquiry:Students conduct an experiment using Daphnia and brine shrimp to demonstrate adaptations to environmental change by organisms. / SCI GLE 0807.Inq.2
SCI GLE 0807.9.9
5 – 8 / Mermaids and Manatees (80) / 80 / Language Arts:Students describe aquatic animals using a narrative style of writing that, in turn, is the basis for a drawing or painting done by other students. / SCI GLE 0807.5.1
LA GLE 0801.3.1
5 – 8 / What's in the Air? (136) / 136 / Through simulations and direct measurement, students experience differing conditions of acidity in aquatic habitats and explore the consequences of acidic conditions on aquatic life.Inquiry: Students collect data over a two week period on grass seedlings “watered” with different vinegar solutions. Math: Students graph data and compare results for different vinegar treatments. / SCI GLE 0807.Inq.2
SCI GLE 0807.9.9
Math GLE 0806.1.5
5 – 8 / Turtle Hurdles (172) / 172 / Students become sea turtles and limiting factors in a highly active simulation game. / SCI GLE 0807.5.5
5 – 8 / Aquatic Roots (177) / 177 / Language Arts:Students use reference materials to research various local aquatic plants, or animals, to find out whether they are natives or exotics and investigate their effects on people, other animals, and the environment. / SCI GLE 0807.5.5
SCI GLE 0801.4.2
5 – 8 / Aquatic Times (188) / 188 / Language Arts:Students investigate, write, and produce a newspaper that features aquatic information and issues. Inquiry:Students can use this “newspaper writing” approach to communicate the results of inquiry. / SCI GLE 0807.Inq.5
LA GLE 0801.3.1

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