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Lesson Plans - 8th Grade

Melted Oceans

Mix and blend melted crayon colors to create ocean in motion scenes.

Fragile Reefs

Adjust your goggles and tighten your swim fins! Dive beneath the ocean surface to explore breathtakingly beautiful coral reefs and the thousands of species they shelter. Create a coral reef ecosystem in your own undersea diorama.

Don’t Spill the Oil

Investigate the impact of oil spills and efforts made to prevent and clean up such environmental accidents.

Words from the Ocean

Students study some common words that have origins in maritime cultures and explore how the meanings of the words have changed over the years.

Oceans of the World

Students demonstrate abilities to research and compare information about oceans. Students correctly locate oceans on a world map.