Outline for
Touch Tank Program from Ocean Adventure!|
I. Introduction - who I am and why we are here II. Importance of the sea A. Earth is 3/4 water B. There are lots more ocean animals than land animals C. Man knows very little about how ocean animals live III. Live animals A. Starfish, Sea Urchin, Sand Dollar and Sea Cucumber - 4 animals that look very different but, in fact, are very much alike B. Rock Crab, Decorator Crab, Hermit Crab, Spider Crab and Horseshoe Crab - animals that look similar but, in fact, are different IV. Neat dead stuff (if time allows) Most animals in the program will be passed around the room by the children and then we will discuss where they live, how they eat, how they move, etc. Follow-up materials provided - Gulf of Maine book and poster, animal pictures to be colored, named and matched to a fact from the program
Maine Learning Results Standards covered for Science & Technology Grades K-2/ A.1,2,4; B.1; C.1,2; D.1,2,4; E.3; J.3; L.1,3 Grades 3-4/ A.1-4; D.1; L.2 Grades 5-8/ A.3; C.1; D.1,2
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Vocabulary List for Touch Tank Program from
Ocean Adventure!(This program is used for many age groups. Pick out age-appropriate terms)
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tube feet - locomotion system used by all echinoderms (spiny skinned animals like starfish) consisting of hundreds of water-filled tubes with suction cups on the ends. tentacles - long, frilly appendages, often with sticky stuff on them, used for feeding true crabs - animals with hard shells all over their whole body other "crabs" (anomurans) - animals that look like crabs but do not have hard shells over their entire body (usually have soft tails) - this leads to some interesting life styles fossils - impressions made by plants and animals in rocks. They lived a long time ago and when they died, they fell into some mud which, over time, became rock with a "picture" of the hard parts of the plant or animal "living fossil" - a type of animal that is still around today that was around with the dinosaurs. Most animals from dinosaur times are extinct or really different now but a few have gone through all that time virtually unchanged
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