Fishy Facts Part 3

10. What was a Dunkleosteus?

11. How do fish survive winter in freezing cold water?

12. Many beautiful and unusual fish live in the coral reef habitat.
Write a paragraph describing the factors endangering many coral reef habitats.

Identify one action you can take to protect them.

13. The headline of your local paper reads, "Fish ladder to be added to local river".
You start laughing. You just learned that fish do not have legs. A ladder for fish, sounds pretty fishy to you.
What is a fish ladder? Why would they need one? Use your online research skills to obtain the answers.

14. Only the Strong Survive - complete the activity How many are left?

Fish Anatomy info for the printed worksheet.

Challenge:

Variation - grouping things

Do this Dichotomous Key activity for two of the species.
Make a Dichotomous Key for a species of fish that lives in your region.

 

Done already? Well done!

Puzzler: What do a fish, a mammal, a bird and a reptile have in common?

Salmon: Spirit of the Land and The Sea | Life stages

Nova Science Now Video online - Meet Edith Widder, a marine biologist and explorer who has engineered new ways to spy on deep-sea creatures.

Emergence - How does the "intelligence" of an ant colony or the stock market arise out of the simple actions of its members?

Explore the Great Barrier Reef through NGS - online activity	Check out the fish at FishCam.
Marine Biology - The Living Oceans	Fish in the food pyramid
Monteray Bay Aquarium	Use a Paint program in your computer to color this fishy picture
Observe a Living fish activity	Oceans - a cause for concern Problem based Learning
Explore the Chesapeake Bay	Trace a fish species on the Tree of Life
Learn about Seahorses	Saving Polluterville webquest
Pennsylvania fishes	Treasures @ Sea
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument	Electronic Naturalist - nature study with materials
Sea Games	Fishbase.org- a fish species database
Mother Fish video from Nature	Science Observation Skill Builders
Odyssey Expeditions Tropical Marine Biology Voyages

You tell Uncle Mike about your bad day at school. He responds, "Tis a fine kettle of fish you've gotten yourself into!"
What does he mean? Find out at the idiom site.

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