Ocean Unit -Ocean animals, Ocean Habitats (ELA and Science Unit) 2nd-3rd grade

This ocean unit is filled with engaging activities and resources to explore the wonders of the ocean! This comprehensive and fun ocean unit is designed to meet the needs of educators and students, offering a ton of activiites and resources all about the ocean. This ocean unit would work for anytime of the year or for a wonderful summer school curriculum that will have your students discovering and engaged in learning about the ocean.

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What is all included?

-All about the Oceans reading material and questions to follow that have students using the text for evidence. Real pictures are included throughout this unit.

-Map for students to label the oceans.

-Activities, posters and information on Ocean food chains, and Ocean zones.

-Why is the Ocean Salty? and Why is the ocean blue? -experiments that go with those questions.

-Learning about Whales non-fiction reading material, questions to follow along with true and false and vocabulary pages.

-Whale and shark cards highlighting specific whales and sharks. Little whale and shark cards for your students that they can put together with a ring to have their own whale cards, questions that follow reading. Also included are full page visuals that highlight key details about each whale and shark.

-Label the whale and shark activity

-Compare and contrast fish and whales pocket chart and individual desk activity

-Octopus information and writing activity where students write 8 facts on an octopus

-Learning about sharks non-fiction reading material, questions to follow

-Non-fiction informational writing templates for whales, sharks and blank ones for your students to use for reporting on an ocean animal. Everything you need for your studetns to

-Ocean, shark and whale vocabulary cards, that include worksheets for review of the words and dictionaries your students can make.

Many different writing activities including

-Ocean News

-Pout-Pout Fish

-Down in the Deep class book to make

-If I were a deep sea diver-writing activity

-I am shark -Writing activity

-Dear Emily, from Dear Mr. Blueberry

-Fish facts-Fish booklet to make

This ocean unit has over 260 pages and your students will have a comprehensive understanding of the ocean, including its salinity, color, diverse marine life, and specific creatures like whales, sharks and octopuses. Let the exploration of the ocean begin!

Happy Teaching!

Jane