OCEAN WEEK -
Monday:
- Science: Layers of the Ocean
- Sunlight/plants can grow
- Twilight
- Midnight
- Abyss
- Trenches
- STEM: Interactive Layers - simulates being in your own submarine on the way down to the Challenger Deep
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| Whale blubber experiment |
Tuesday:
- Ocean Animals -
- Media: Watch "Blue Planet" or Disney+ ocean documentary
- My littles are most interested in learning about beluga whales, humpback whales, turtles, octopuses, and sharks
- P.E.: Under the Sea Exercise
- STEM:
- Art:
- Suncatcher jellyfish to show transparency
Wednesday:
- Ecosystems -
- Media: Ocean Food Chain - Magic School Bus Gets Eaten
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| We had tuna-shaped tuna fish sandwiches for lunch to coincide with the "Magic School Bus" storyline |
- Media: Great Barrier Reef - largest ocean food web/ecosystem
- Roundtable Discussion: Pollution currently endangers sea creatures large and small, and it has the potential to destroy our ocean's ecosystems; what can we do to help?
Thursday:
- STEM: How the Ocean is Shaped -
- Currents control the temperature of the world by bringing warm water up from the tropics and cold water down from the artic; learn about currents with food coloring
- Mountain ranges under the ocean; islands made from volcanos
- Waves shape our shore; moon controls tides
Friday:
- History/Culture: People and the Ocean -
- Navy, sonar - learned from whales and porpoises (get to a certain point and can't see), helps us map the ocean floor
- Harbors protect ships because they are so shallow
- What is on the ocean floor (cities, artifacts, sunken ships)
- Titanic Opening Scene - Ship Dive (Caution: this is the opening scene from the movie, so it has 3 curse words - I put later filmed wreck footage below for this reason; the footage isn't as good because of the decomp, but it's just wreck footage/no actors)
- Later Wreck Footage
Saturday: Field Trip to Water Park or Beach
Since it's Ocean Week, we just HAD to make SpongeBob's beloved Krabby Patties!
We also had some fun with other ocean-inspired recipes:
- Ocean Water - I put the little sour gummy octopuses on the side of the glasses as garnishes (for adults: add alcohol of choice... I mean, you're teaching from home, haha)
- Beach Pudding Cups
- And lots of seafood!
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