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The Earth has one big ocean with many features |
The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected |
The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of the Earth |
The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate |
The ocean is largely unexplored |
The ocean made the Earth habitable |
The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems |
K - 1 |
Basic needs of animals |
- Feeding charades
- Comic Strip
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Arctic Biodiversity Game
- African Penguin
- Kelp Forest Camouflage
- Comic Strip
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- Ice Hop
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Ice Hop
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Arctic biodiversity Game
- Feeding charades
- African Penguin
- Arctic Breathing
- Kelp Forest Camouflage
- Comic Strip
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Care for living things and our impact on them |
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- Watching my waste-line
- African Penguin
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- Water wonders: Tales from the ocean
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Describing characteristics of living things, especially using senses |
- Fur, feathers, skin or scales?
- Comic Strip
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- Fur, feathers, skin, or scales?
- Create a creature
- Comic Strip
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Seasonal changes |
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2 - 4 |
Investigating clean water, local bodies, clean water as a basic need |
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Life cycles |
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- Water wonders: Tales from the ocean
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Energy cycles through nature: producer/consumer etc., food chains/webs |
- Salmon food web
- Watching my waste-line
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- Salmon food web
- African Penguin
- Arctic Breathing
- Bioaccumulation
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Habitats: biomes, niches |
- Water wonder: Habitat activity?
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Ice Hop
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Ice Hop
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Staying Alive: Animal cam
- Arctic Breathing
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Relationships between organisms |
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- Water wonders: Tales from the ocean
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- Salmon food web
- Arctic Breathing
- African Penguin
- Bioaccumulation
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Structures of organisms, particularly how they sense and respond to the envrionment |
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- Staying Alive: Animal cam
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Classify organisms |
- Fur, feathers, skin or scales?
- Go fish card game
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- Salmon Bingo
- Ocean Who Am I?
- Go fish card game
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5 - 7 |
Natural phenomena: weather, climate, geological changes and landforms |
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- Building sustainability
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Building sustainability
- Greenhouse Gas Game
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Diversity and classification, particularly vertebrate vs. invertebrate |
- Invertebrate "Wanted: Alive" poster
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- Invertebrate "Wanted: Alive" poster
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- Design your own invertebrate
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- Salmon Bingo
- Invertebrate "Wanted: Alive" poster
- Ocean Who Am I?
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Adaptations to different environments |
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
- Water wonder: Habitat activity?
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- Design your own invertebrate
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- Staying Alive: Animal cam / "super animal"
- Arctic Breathing
- Comic Strip
- Ocean Who Am I?
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Biotic/abiotic comparisons and interactions |
- Salmon food web
- Design your own invertebrate
- Arctic Biodiversity Game
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- Arctic Biodiversity Game
- Salmon countdown
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- Building sustainability
- Watching my waste-line
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- Design your own invertebrate
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- Salmon food web
- Design your own invertebrate
- Bioaccumulation
- Comic Strip
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