name: seaweed storytime

age group: 9 to 11 year olds

materials: none 

how:

let the kids

   sit down

 close their eyes.

 breathe in

          and breathe out.

while the volunteer

tells a story 

under the sea.

where the children listen

as they breathe in

and breathe out.

ocean fact: half of the oxygen that we breathe in is produced by seaweed and phytoplankton that reside in the ocean.