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Coral Reef Resource Roundup CD 2008:

Student Activities

These are short, fun and educational classroom activities that can be used to complement the lesson plans listed above, or can be used as stand-alone activities. This list includes coloring pages, crossword puzzles, jeopardy games, simple experiments and physical activities that introduce students to marine concepts and issues.

Each student activity is available as a pdf download in the table below. Supplemental materials are also identified and linked for select student activities. File size is listed for each downloadable file; links with no file size listed are not file downloads.

 

Name Summary Group/Org.
A list of web resources that contain lesson plans and activities for K-5 educators.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative
A list of web resources that contain lesson plans and activities for 9-12 educators.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative
A list of web resources that contain lesson plans and activities for 6-8 educators.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative
This curriculum takes elementary students through a variety of exploratory activities to learn more about animal adaptations, specially those of the octopus.
NOAA
A classroom activity to answer the question: Do corals gain some advantage by spawning all at once?
NOAA
Simple classroom experiments for teachers on ocean acidification (using dry ice), thermal expansion, and rising seas.
NOAA
Several illustrated activities of varying levels of difficulty to build coral models, highlighting the Flower Garden Banks.
NOAA
Coral Cores
(1.67 mb)
Using coral cores to understand coral growth and how it can be used to study climate change. Includes sample images.
NOAA
A colorful coral reef poster identifying and describing animals.
NOAA
Find names of species found in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
NOAA
A fun way to test your knowledge of coral reef environments. Note: click on squares on the game board page to show questions. Hit the forward arrow key to advance to the answer. Click 'home' icon on the answer page to return to the game board.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative
A fun way to test your knowledge of coral reef environments. Note: in presentation mode, click on squares on the game board slide to show questions. Click on forward arror at bottom of screen or hit forward arrow key to advance to the answer. Click 'home' icon on answer slide to return to game board.
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative
A one-page drawing with inhabitants of the coral reefs.
NOAA
A classroom activity to simulate coral spawning.
NOAA
Find names of species found in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
NOAA
Cut-out to identify when marine animals are active.
NOAA
Build coral polyp models out of egg cartons.
New England Aquarium
This children's activity introduces sea creatures found in the diverse coral reef ecosystem of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
NOAA
Kid's Corner
(433 kb)
A one-page fun introduction to corals for young children.
NOAA
Manta Mysteries
(2.71 mb)
Students play a game to stimulate the identification of manta rays in the field. Focus questions include: What are some of the advantages of using acoustic tags to track manta rays?
NOAA
Five pages of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) ecosystems to color!
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Reserve
Hunt for words relating to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).
Waikiki Aquarium
Use real data and satellite images on sea surface temp and Degree Heating Weeks for Caribbean coral hotspots to 'predict' bleaching for the 2005 summer. Answers provided!
NOAA
This children's activity book teaches students about Hawai`i's ocean, coral reef ecosystems, and the animals that live there.
NOAA
How many words can you find in "zooxanthellae"?
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