Ocean Lesson Plan Ideas and Activities
Age level: Kindergarten-Second Grade
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The activities are listed below.
Easy Ocean Activities
Mini-Aquariums
Take a clean baby food jar and remove the label. Add sparkly fish, sea
creatures, and shell stickers around the outside of the jar. Fill a
separate bowl with water and add a few drops of blue food coloring. Put
some blue water in your jar and add some glitter. Hot glue the lid onto
the jar, let it cool, and then shake it to watch your fish swim.
Rainbow Fish
Read the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Give your students a
copy of a black and white fish or give them one to trace. The students
are then given scraps of foil and tissue paper to create a beautiful
rainbow fish.
Fishy Fun
Put sight words, math problems, letters, or numbers onto lots of small
cutout fish. Attach a magnet onto the back of the fish. Make a fishing
pole by taking a long dowel or stick. Attach string and tie on a paper
clip at the end of the string. Students will be able to fish and learn
during their center time.
Starfish
My Kindergarten students love making these simple starfish. Have them
trace and cut out a star shape from brown or tan paper. With a glue
bottle let them put a few drop of glue onto their star cutout. Let them
smear the glue around with a Popsicle stick. Walk over to the sand table
or you can bring in some sand in a bucket. They bury their starfish, dig
it up, and shake it off. Hint: Make sure the students' names are on the
back because they will all look the same while drying!
Shell Sorting
Children love to look at shells. If you have a large variety it is easy
and fun to make into a center. Give the students lots of ideas of ways
they could sort them. Smallest to largest, longest to shortest,
prettiest to not so pretty. They will be able to come up with lots of
their own categories. At the end let them draw a picture of their
favorite one.
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