Ocean Unit - Wk 2 - Day 10 Huge Ocean Resource List

  Hard to believe that today is the last day of our 2 week ocean unit study. We have had so much fun learning all about Earth's great oceans. We

are going to use today as a review day. Below you will find a great big list of general ocean resources.  Hope your day is wonderful!

Visit Our Ocean Pinterest Board

OCEAN BOOKS

OCEAN PRINTABLES

Ocean Themed Printables 

Free Ocean Pack

Ocean Worksheets

Ocean Craft Activity Printables

51 Free Ocean Themed Printables and Activities

OCEAN POETRY

Ocean Poems

Ocean Poems - A Big Collection

Beach & Ocean Poems

Scholastic - Fish Poems

Poetry of the Sea

OCEAN SCIENCE 

Ocean - Science Fair Ideas

Ocean Science Projects

Ocean in a Bottle

MORE OCEAN RESOURCES

Dive Deep With Weebit Cuckoo 

Ocean Exploration Timeline

Seaworld - Virtual Aquarium 

National Aquarium 

New England Aquarium

Ocean World

Women Exploring the Oceans

NeoK12 - Oceans

Marine Wildlife Encyclopedia

Ocean Science - App

IliveMath -  Oceans App

OCEAN CRAFTS

These links are Ocean Craft Pinterest Boards that I liked

http://www.pinterest.com/seathos/ocean-crafts/

http://www.pinterest.com/greenkidcrafts/ocean-crafts-and-activities/

http://www.pinterest.com/harborwildwatch/ocean-crafts/

http://www.pinterest.com/stamiles/ocean-crafts/

Ocean Unit - wk. 2 - Day 9

  I hope your day is well. I had a bunch of fun learning activities planned for today, unfortunately I'm just not sure we're going to be able to get it all done. I have a sick little girl today and this mama is sad. :( We are going to try our hardest though to get as much done as we can.

Today's plan includes learning about John Cabot, the manatee, echolocation, and what a tsunami is.

Below, are the resources I will be using and/or referencing.

OCEAN UNIT PINTEREST BOARD

John Cabot Resources

All About Explorers

John Cabot Timeline

Land of the Brave - Cabot Facts

John Cabot Coloring Page

John Cabot Printable

Manatee Resources

Fun Fact: Manatees are sometimes called sea cows

National Geo - Manatee

Scholastic - Manatee

Manatee Webcam

Save the Manatee Club

Echolocation Resources

Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging (or hunting).

The term echolocation was coined by a man named Donald Griffin.

Okay so bats aren't really part of an ocean unit, but they are part of learning about echolocation. Bats send out sound waves using their mouth or nose. When the sound hits an object an echo comes back. The bat can identify an object by the sound of the echo. They can even tell the size, shape and texture of a tiny insect from its echo.  Pretty Cool!


Whales, among other sea animals, use echolocation in order to see through the sometimes murky depths of the deep ocean.

Dolphin Echolocation

Echolocation even helps kids and adults learn to 'see' by using sound. 

Tsunami Resources

Visit Our Tsunami Pinterest Board

How a Tsunami Forms

Tsunami Worksheet

Ocean Unit - Wk 2 Day 8

  
   Today we are going to be learning about Bartholomew Dias, studying the ocean floor, and starfish. I will also be sharing some pretty neat ocean math resources at the bottom. Hope you enjoy! 

Bartholomew Dias Resources

Bartholomew Dias Color Page

Kids Past - Bartholomew Dias

Ocean Floor Resources

Video: Scientists "See" Ocean Floor via Sonar

Diagram of the Ocean Floor

The Secrets of the Ocean Floor

Ocean Regions: Ocean Floor - Characteristics

Features of the Ocean Floor


How to Make a 3D Model of an Ocean Floor for Kids


Starfish Resources

What is a Starfish?

National Geo Kids - Starfish

10 Facts About Starfish (Sea Stars)

Starfish Coloring Page

Starfish Scramble

I found this and really liked it. I wanted to share it with you all.

OCEAN MATH ACTIVITIES

Ocean Themed Math Worksheets

Ocean Themed Math Ideas

More Ocean Math Ideas

Over 360 Various Oceans Worksheets

Ocean Unit - Wk: 2 Day 7

Last week we dived straight into a pretty fun ocean unit. This week we are still exploring and learning about Earth's great oceans. Join us each day as I recount the days activities on our blog. 

Today we started with a quote in our journals.

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"

Louisa May Alcott

We learned about Vasco Da Gama, the water cycle, and sand dollars.

Check out the great resources I found below. 

Vasco Da Gama Resources

Vasco da Gama Biography for Kids

Ducksters - Vasco da Gama

Water Cycle Resources

USGS - Water Cycle for Kids

Sciencekids- The Water Cycle

Water Cycle Activity Pages

Neok12 - Water Cycle

Sand Dollar Resources

We learned that Sand Dollars are echinoderms (which means "spiny skin") and are related to sea urchins and sea stars.

What is a Sand Dollar?

Sand Dollar Printables 

Paper Plate Sand Dollar Craft

Ocean Unit - Day 5 - Review

Today was an ocean unit review day. 

We started our day with a trip to our local library for a homeschool co-op get together.  We managed to find four really neat ocean related books, that we checked out.

      

We reviewed our vocabulary words and rewrote them on index cards. 

We reviewed the interesting people we had previously learned about. 

See: Day 3 - Leif Erickson & Day 4  - Henry the Navigator

We now plan to work on an ocean album book

We plan to fill a homemade book with poems, stories, and pictures of the ocean. 

Here is a neat video I came across this morning. 

Fish Create Sand Art On Ocean Floor

Ocean Unit - Sharks

Day 2 - Sharks

We started off the day with an adventure with my mother. She is a nurse who works the night shift, so her time off is usually spent resting. She had the opportunity to spend the day with us, so we took it. :) We took a long road trip to a pizza arcade and spent a good amount of time just enjoying each other's company, laughing, and playing games. A day much needed for all of us.

I did not however forget that we just started an awesome ocean unit. So luckily the girls were still eager to learn about sharks when we arrived home. It might have been late, but they were troopers and hey that's the essence of homeschooling right? Who says you can't learn in the night? Certainly not I. :)

We started off reading Amazing Sharks by Melvin Berger.

The book is filled with lots of great information and wonderful pictures. I love that the book is big enough for everyone to see while I'm reading it. 

We learned about shark teeth and that not all sharks have large teeth. We then did a shark craft. I found the craft on Dollar Store Crafts

My oldest did an internet research paper on the length of some sharks. 

   She used sites like google, pebblego, and wikipedia to find the different information on each shark. She then wrote the info on the paper. While she was busy working away, I was busy helping the other girls with their math for the evening. 

After the girls were finished with their math, they each worked on a word find, while I started some laundry and finished a bit of much needed housework.

For language arts this evening they took turns using my Kindle Fire. They used a newly downloaded app called VocabularySpellingCity.

There just so happened to be a beach theme that went along great with our ocean unit. 

After my oldest finished her internet research paper, we went outside to measure the length of a few of the sharks. This proved to be quite fun actually. We got a kick out of how long some of the sharks truly are. 

As I type this the girls are watching a shark documentary on netflix. I'm a few minutes from hitting my bed. :)  It has been a very busy but yet productive day.