~~Books~~

Baker, Lucy. (1993). Life in the Ocean.  New York:  Scholastic, Inc.

Carpenter, Mimi Gregoire. (1981). What the Sea Left Behind.  Camden, Maine:  Down East Books.

Center for Marine Conservation.  (1989). The Ocean Book.  New York:  John Wiley and Sons.

Cole, J.  (1992). The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor.  New York: Scholastic Inc.

 Denne, B. (2002).  The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans.  New York:  

            Scholastic Inc.

 Dipper, F.  (1997).  The New Book of Treasures Under the Ocean.  Connecticut:  Copper

            Beech Books.

 Holsaert, E. & Holsaert, F.  (1965). Ocean Wonders.  Canada: Holt.

 Matthews, R.  (1990). Record Breakers of the Sea.  New Jersey:  Troll.

 Pearce, Q.L.  (1991).  Easy Answers to First Science Questions About Oceans.  New

            York:  RGA.

Plisson, Phillip, et.al. (2003). The Sea.     New York: Harry Abrams.

 Pfister, M.  (1992).  The Rainbow Fish.  New York: Scholastic.

 Readers Digest.  (2003). Creatures of the Air and Sea.  New York: Weldon Owen Inc.

 Sipiera, Paul. (1987). I Can Be an Oceanographer.  Chicago, Il: Children’s Press.

 Strange Animals of the Sea.  National Geographic Action Book.

~~Individual Activities Web sites~~

http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/haiku.htm Discusses the proper format for haikus as well as gives examples of haikus.

http://www.seaworld.org/animal%2Dinfo/info%2Dbooks/baleen/physical-characteristics.htm#size  Gives information on the lengths of many different whales as well as other physical characteristics of whales.

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3803  Discusses camouflage and animal adaptations and what animals use them for.  It also gives examples of land animals and how they use their camouflage and adaptations.

 http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/hide/gestalt.HTMLX  Gives definition for camouflage and allows students to play a hide and seek game to understand it better.

http://www.reefimages.com/Camouflage/camouflage_index.html Gives pictures of animals using camouflage and asks you to find the animal.

http://www.coralreefalliance.org/professorpolyp/2002/november.html  Gives a basic definition of what symbiosis is and how it is used by clownfish.

http://www.ms-starship.com/sciencenew/symbiosis.htm Gives a definition of symbiosis and gives many examples of ocean animals and how they use symbiosis.

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/coral3.htm Gives a definition of symbiosis and how coral is involved in the symbiotic relationship.

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/kids/spills.html Contains basic facts of oil spills including comparisons so that kids could understand.

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/tours/tour.html   Offers students an opportunity to take an guided tour of an oil spill.

http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/photos/exxon/exxon.html  Contains photographs of actual Exxon Valdez oil spill.

http://environment.about.com/library/images/bloilspillindex.htm  Gives real photographs from many different oil spills around the world.

 http://www.rspb.org.uk/  Trying to secure a better life for all of the environment.  Gives important news information as well as insight into this information.

http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/regulate/environ/archaeological/shipwrecks.html   Contains information about historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0206/sharks2.html   Gives interesting facts of the Great White Shark.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/wr/article/0,17585,58544,00.html  Gives information on the treatment of sea horses including their capture from the wild for souvenirs as well as for different medicines.  Gives advice on what we could do to save the sea horses as well as interesting facts on them.

 http://www.sheddaquarium.org/ Home site for the Shedd Aquarium.  It gives basic information about them as well as links to their exhibits and more information on certain animals.

http://oceanlink.island.net/ask/answerscar.html This site gives information regarding different ocean careers.  It also answers questions that were sent by other children regarding particular ocean related careers.

~~Team Activities Web Sites~~

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/valencia/explore/ocean_layers.html Gives a picture of a cross-section of the ocean might look like.

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep6c.htm  Gives information as to what the different zones of the ocean are as well as descriptions of the different zones.

http://www.mos.org/oceans/life/ Contains basic information as to the different zones of the ocean as well as predators and prey found in different zones of the ocean.

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/oceans/zone.htmContains basic information as to the different zones of the ocean as well as animals found in different zones of the ocean.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Bottledolphin.shtml Contains information on the bottlenose dolphin.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/paint/subjects/turtle/Seaturtlecoloring.shtml Contains information on the sea turtle.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/ Contains information on the whale.

http://www.whaletimes.com/whafshn.htm Contains information on the shark.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Penguincoloring.shtml Contains information on the penguin.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/paint/subjects/mammals/pinniped/Harpsealprintout.shtml Contains information on the harp seal.

www.enchantedlearning.com  Allows students to search for various ocean animals.

Student Site I Facilitator's Guide