# Students research to learn how coral reefs form, where they are located, and what plant and animal species find shelter in the reefs.
# Students build and display a diorama to represent coral and animals that live in a coral reef.
# Students participate in a discussion about what could be done to preserve the possible extinction of coral reefs.
# Students research and build detailed 3-dimensional models to demonstrate their understanding of how oil is transported, causes of oil spills, and the environmental and economic consequences of these spills.
# Students use various techniques to mold, sculpt, and marbleize Model Magic® compound to represent their understanding of the impact of an oil spill.
Students
* identify how the modern meanings of several words have changed from the meanings they originally had in maritime cultures,
* recognize how the ocean’s prominence in our culture has shaped our language,
* construct hypotheses as to the original, ocean-related meanings of several everyday words.
Students use the Internet or library sources to compare and contrast information about the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. Students also locate the oceans on a world map.
Children will learn about the beach and its inhabitants – go on an imaginary field trip in the winter to cure the winter blahs.
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