Project Aquatic WILD Activities for Grades K – 4

Correlated to Science, Language Arts, and Mathematics

Grade / Activity Title / Page # / Description / Grade Level Expectations /
K – 4 / Are You Me? (2) / 2 / Using picture cards, students match pairs of juvenile and adult aquatic animals. / SCI GLE 0007.4.1
K – 4 / Aqua Words (29) / 29 / Language Arts: Students brainstorm water words, make word trees with those words, and write poetic statements about water. / SCI GLE 0007.3.1
LA GLE 0001.1.2
K – 4 / Water Plant Art
(31) / 31 / Students create artwork showing aquatic habitats using drawings and pressed aquatic plants. / SCI GLE 0007.5.1
K – 4 / Marsh Munchers (34) / 34 / Students use body movements and pantomime to simulate the feeding motions of marsh animals. / SCI GLE 0007.5.1
K – 4 / Fashion a Fish (56) / 56 / Students design a fish adapted for various aquatic habitats. Inquiry for Grades K-2: Students consider how body shape and coloration of their “designed fish” would affect what habitat it could survive in. Inquiry for Grades 3-4: Students consider how up to 5 characteristics of their “designed fish” would affect what habitat it could survive in. Math: Students consider fish attributes and their effects on fish survival. / SCI GLE 0007.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0007.5.1
Math GLE 0006.3.2
K – 4 / Water We Eating? (83) / 83 / Students visit a local supermarket and compile a list of products that originate in aquatic habitats. Inquiry and Math: As an Extension, students classify food products by aquatic habitats or compare aquatic products in typical American supermarkets to those in ethnic markets. / SCI GLE 0007.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0007.3.1
Math GLE 0006.5.1
K – 4 / Plastic Jellyfish (128) / 128 / Students monitor the plastic waste production in their own households, research the effects of plastic waste on fresh water and marine life and propose various ways to lessen the problem. Inquiry and Math Grades K-3: Students collect and sort plastic litter (Steps 1 and 2). As Extensions, they establish a Litter Patrol and research the breakdown of plastic litter over a 1 month period. Inquiry and Math Grade 4: Students explore the problems in trying to recover spilled plastic pellets, graph the data, and consider the effects of unrecovered pellets (Steps 3-10). / SCI GLE 0007.Inq.1
SCI GLE 0007.3.1
Math GLE 0006.5.1

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