All about Fish and Ocean Animals Nonfiction Unit Sea Life Research Reports
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This is the perfect bundle of goodies to teacher your primary students about fish and ocean life. It is over a weeks worth of materials that is sure to engage your little learners and make them reptile experts. There are two paper mini books that are Included. One is all about fish and their characteristics and the other is about different ocean life. There are 5 research projects included for whales, octopus, jellyfish, seahorses and sharks. I use this packet to integrate reading as well as the research towards the end of our first grade year. There are also 5 crafts and lesson plans for you to look over on how you can use everything that is included. As a bonus I have added some fiction activities too.
Fish:
- Fish Schema
- All about Fish mini book, copy two per page (9 pages)
- Dig Deeper
- Label a Fish
- Design a Fish
- Sort
- 8 full page posters of fish characteristics
- Informative fish web and write
- Fish can, have, are
- How to care for a fish prewriting and writing
- If I saw a shark narrative prewriting and writing
- What is it like to be a fish? By Pfeffer Recall
Word Work:
- Alphabetizing
- Word Search
- Syllables
- Fill in the blank
Ocean Animals:
- Ocean Animals mini book, copy two per page (11 pages)
- Informative web and writing ocean animals
- A Visit to the Aquarium by Aliki recall
- Wish for Fish by Worth recall
- Commotion in the Ocean by Andreae recall
- Underwater by James recall
- I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Sherry recall
- Over in the Ocean by Berkes recall
- All about Starfish fill in the blank
- Whale poem
- All about Whales fill in the blank
Research Projects:
- Whale
- Octopus
- Shark
- Jellyfish
- Seahorse
Each report includes the following: cover page, habitat, group, food, babies, label, fun facts, photos, and table of contents page
Crafts:
- Jellyfish
- Starfish
- Whale
- Octopus
- Seahorse
- Shark
- Fish
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"This is an INCREDIBLE resource! Very detailed lessons, activities, and games for students to complete. It was easy to use online and the students really enjoyed this unit. I could not have gotten through without it. VERY much worth it."
"Being a new to homeschooling mom, it is super helpful to have units like this that are all planned out with multiple subject crossovers. Turtles and Ocean life are my son's jam, so this was a great unit. Thank you!"
"I've hit the mother-load! Wonderful lesson plan whether by itself or to be used in addition to a science book. A million yays!"
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