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OCEAN HABITATS-JELLO AQUARIUMS
(QuickPlan developed by Carla Beltramini, Trieste, Italy)
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OVERVIEW: Children use blue jello, plastic transparent containers and different gummy candies to create an ocean habitat. This model-building activity is combined with the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni, in which one little surviving fish takes a swim by himself through the wonders of the ocean habitat.
BOOKLINK: Swimmy by Leo Lionni, A Dragonfly Book, New York, 1963. ISBN 0-394-82620-5
SCIENCE ACTIVITY LINK: Children will construct an edible aquarium using jello and gummy candies. Starting with the ocean floor they will create a model habitat, including some animals and plants that live in each level.
OBJECTIVE: Children will identify, observe, and classify animals and plants that live in the ocean and be able to recognize which level of the ocean they inhabit.
SCIENCE PROCESSES AND CONTENT: Processes-observing, classifying, data collection, inferring and model building. Content-characteristics of organisims, habitats, food chains, adaptations, and diversity of sea life.
NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS: Unifying Concepts and Processes, (1) Science as Inquiry, (3) Life Science
MATERIALS: Blue Jello (each package makes 500ml), figure one box per aquarium. Transparent plastic containers and gummy candies.
PROCEDURE:
1. Collect enough small, clear plastic containers, those that resemble an aquarium, for each child in your class. Plastic fruit containers from the grocery store, bottoms of large water bottles-anything that might resemble a small aquarium-will work.
2. Get some gummy candy. We found a variety of fish, sharks, turtles and octopi (the rainbow variety became jelly fish). Use licorice wheels to make eels, red licorice cut into thin strips makes great coral, any other candies can be used for rocks or to make clams and starfish.
3. Read Swimmy and on each page stop to talk about the different places that he swims through and the different kinds of living things that he meets along the way.
4. CREATE THE OCEAN FLOOR: Have the containers ready at the children's seats and candies ready in a bowl. The children should choose the rocks, plants, starfish, eels and coral that live on the ocean floor. Pour just enough jello to cover the bottom of the container
5. CREATE THE MIDDLE LAYER:We put the containers outside our classroom to chill (it's winter) and while we waited we reread the parts of the book that showed other organisms and where they lived. We also looked at our Science text "Discover the Wonder" to see what organisms live in the middle of the ocean. Pour enough jello over the bottom layer to make the middle layer.We then chose the next group of organisms and placed them into the middle layer and set them back out to chill.
6. Finish the book and discuss animals that live close to the top of the ocean (sharks, whales, and dolphins, turtles and jelly fish.) After the top layer is completed it might be better to put them in the fridge unless it's really cold out there.If you do this before lunch they should be ready to eat or take home that afternoon. Buon Appetito!!
RELATED BOOKS:
Down, Down, Down in the Ocean by Sandra Markle, Walker and Company, New York, 1999. ISBN 0-8027-8654-5
Under the Sea by Jennifer Dussling, Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-448-40078-2
Life in the Oceans by Norbert Wu, Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando, 1991. ISBN 0-15-305235-X
Mysteries and Marvels of Ocean Life by Rick Morris, Scholastic Inc., New York. ISBN 0-590-22328-3
Secrets of the Deep by Ingrid Selberg, Children's Books International Ltd, New York, 1990. ISBN 0-8037-0766-5
Wonders of the Sea by Louis Sabin, Troll Associates, New Jersey, 1982. ISBN 0-89375-579-6
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole, Scholastic, Inc., New York, 1992. ISBN 0-590-41431-3
The Ocean Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta, Charlesbridge, Massachusetts, 1986. ISBN 0-88106-452-1
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, North-South Books, New York, 1992. ISBN 1-55858-0093
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