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Teacher Resource Guide Grades K-2

Contents:

Introduction 1 Student Activities 2-7 (In the Classroom) Student Activities 8-9 (During your Trip) Sample Responses 10 State Standards 11

Educational Objectives:

• Learn the differences between real sea turtles and cartoon ones

• Decide whether things are living or non-living

• Use senses to describe how animals look, feel, and move

• Determine what types of habitats different animals need to survive

• Analyze how energy is transferred through a simple food chain

• Compare the life cycles of animals and plants

• Use observation and collaboration to make amazing discoveries

Hello! In this Resource Guide you will find an assortment of activities that correspond with Sea Turtle Discovery, our FREE education workshop, appropriate for Grades K-2. These supplementary materials are divided into activities for the classroom, as well as self-guided activities for students as they walk through the aquarium. All of the content in this guide and the Sea Turtle Discovery workshop are carefully aligned with Florida Sunshine State Standards, as is designated on the bottom of each page. I hope you find this Guide to be a useful and engaging tool to inspire tomorrow’s marine conservation leaders! Best, Colleen Shytle Education Specialist SEA LIFE Orlando

Field Trip Information Please allow ample time for parking and ticketing. To book a FREE on-site educational workshop, please contact our Call Center at 866-228-6444. Workshops must be booked at least 2 weeks in advance. We are conveniently located on International Drive at the I-Drive 360 complex. Buses should use the east entrance off of Universal Boulevard. Parking is FREE!

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Relevant Standards: SC.K.L.14.2; SC.K.L.14.3; SC.K.N.1.4

Meet Tyler and Chely!

Hello!

My name is Tyler the Turtle. You can find me around SEA

LIFE Aquarium.

Circle 2 things on Tyler that you wouldn’t see on a real sea turtle.

Chely is a real sea turtle that lives at SEA LIFE Orlando. He was rescued after being hit by a boat. You can see him swimming in our Atlantic Ocean habitat! Can you draw Chely’s flippers? Then color him in!

Chely

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Relevant Standards: SC.K.P.12.1; SC.K.N.1.5; SC.1.P.12.1

Sea creatures move in many different ways. Color in the animals that move slowly.

Moving Along!

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Sand Jellyfish Sea Star

Plastic Bag Scuba Diver Clownfish

Shark Wave Rocks

Relevant Standards: SC.1.L.14.3; SC.1.E.6.1

The ocean is full of many different things! Some are alive and some are not alive. Circle the objects below that are alive.

Staying Alive!

One of these objects does not belong in the ocean. Can you figure out which one it is? Write its name below:

___ ___ a ___ t ___ c B ___ g

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Relevant Standards: SC.1.L.17.1; SC.1.E.6.1; SC.2.L.17.1; SC.2.L.17.2

A habitat is a place where plants and animals live and grow. Draw an arrow to match each animal to its habitat.

Where’s My Home?

Draw a picture of your own habitat, and write one sentence to describe it.

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Relevant Standards: SC.K.N.1.4; SC.1.L.17.; SC.1.E.5.4; SC.2.L.17.2

Plants and animals in a habitat all rely on each other to live. A simple way to show this relationship is by using a food chain. Fill in the blanks to complete the food chain.

Linked Together

S __ __

Plankton

Jellyfish

Sea Turtle

Draw me!

Use the food chain to answer the questions: 1) What does a jellyfish eat?

___ ___ a ___ ___ t ___ n

2) What eats jellyfish?

___ ___ a T ___ r ___ l ___ 3) What does plankton use to make

energy?

___ u ___

Did you know?

In the water, a plastic bag can look like a floating jellyfish. Sea turtles sometimes eat the bags by mistake, and it can make them very sick. You can help by using a reusable bag when you go to the grocery store!

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Relevant Standards: SC.4.L.16.3

All living things, including you, have a life cycle. We are born, grow up, and eventually die. Draw an arrow from each stage in a sea turtle’s life cycle that best matches part of a bean’s life cycle.

The Cycle of Life

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That Makes Sense At the SEA LIFE Orlando Rockpool, you will be able to meet amazing creatures that live in rocky areas near the shore! Instructions: Look at and gently touch and two creatures at the Rockpool. Then, record your observations in the chart below.

Animal Name How does it

feel? How does it

behave? Draw a picture!

Relevant Standards: SC.K.L.14.3; SC.K.N.1.2; SC.K.N.1.4; SC.K.P.12.1; SC.K.N.I.5; SC.1.N.1.2; SC.1.L.14.1; SC.1.P.12.1; SC.2.N.1.5

Wash before & after Do not poke anemones in the center

Use two finger touch

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Entrance: 1. Did the sharks in the video want to eat people or fish?

_________________________________________________ Jellies:

2. Which came first: a T-Rex or a jellyfish? _________________________________________________

Shark Shipwreck: 3. What color is the octopus?

_________________________________________________ Ocean Tunnel:

4. How does a shark swim? _________________________________________________

Indian Ocean: 5. What is the biggest fish in the ocean? (Hint: Watch the video)

_________________________________________________ Stingray Cove:

6. How many stingrays can you count in the Ray Pool? _________________________________________________

Everglades: 7. What kind of habitat do the freshwater turtles live in?

_________________________________________________ Bonus!

8. What is one way that you can help our oceans? _________________________________________________

SEA LIFE Scavenger Hunt!

Relevant Standards: SC.K.L.14.3; SC.K.N.1.1; SC.K.N.1.2; SC.K.P.12.1; SC.1.L.14.1; SC.1.N.1.2; SC.1.E.6.1; SC.1.P.12.1; SC.2.L.17.2

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Sample Responses

Page 2: Answers will vary – may include Tyler’s shorts, smile, flat feet, or wavy shell Page 3: Students should color in the sea star, seahorse, and octopus (sea turtle is acceptable) Page 4: Students should circle the jellyfish, sea star, Scuba diver, clownfish, and shark. Plastic Bag Page 5:

Page 6:

Sun

1) Plankton 2) Sea Turtle 3) Sun

Page 7:

Page 8: Answers will vary Page 9:

1) Fish 6) Around 6 (we do sometimes move animals) 2) Jellyfish 7) Answers will vary, but could be swamp, lake, etc. 3) Answer will vary (usually red) 8) Answers will vary 4) Description will vary 5) Whale shark

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State Standards: Kindergarten Relevant standards include:

• (SC.K.L.14.2) Recognize that some books and other media portray animals and plants with characteristics and behaviors they do not have in real life.

• (SC.K.L.14.3) Observe plants and animals, describe how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.

• (SC.K.N.1.1) Collaborate with a partner to collect information. • (SC.K.N.1.2) Make observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors

collected using the five senses. • (SC.K.N.1.4) Observe and create a visual representation of an object which includes its major

features. • (SC.K.P.12.1) Investigate that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc. • (SC.K.N.1.5) Recognize that learning can come from careful observation.

1st Grade Relevant standards include:

• (SC.1.L.14.1) Make observations of living things and their environment using the five senses • (SC.1.L.14.3) Differentiate between living and nonliving things. • (SC.1.L.17.1) Through observation, recognize that all plants and animals, including humans, need

the basic necessities of air, water, food, and space. • (SC.1.N.1.2) Using the five senses as tools, make careful observations, describe objects in terms

of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion, and compare their observations with others.

• (SC.1.N.1.4) Ask “how do you know?” in appropriate situations. • (SC.1.E.5.4) Identify the beneficial and harmful properties of the Sun. • (SC.1.E.6.1) Recognize that water, rocks, soil, and living organisms are found on Earth’s surface. • (SC.1.P.12.1) Demonstrate and describe the various ways that objects can move, such as in a

straight line, zigzag, back-and-forth, round-and-round, fast, and slow.

2nd Grade Relevant standards include:

• (SC.2.L.17.1) Compare and contrast the basic needs that all living things, including humans, have for survival.

• (SC.2.L.17.2) Recognize and explain that living things are found all over Earth, but each is only able to live in habitats that meet its basic needs.

• (SC.2.N.1.5) Distinguish between empirical observation (what you see, hear, feel, smell, or taste) and ideas or inferences (what you think).

• (SC.2.L.16.1) Observe and describe major stages in the life cycles of plants and animals, including beans and butterflies.