Enhance your unit on ocean life by turning your classroom into a Sea of Knowledge! The resources found in this pathfinder offer a wide range of decorating ideas that will help to educate your students about life under the sea and will allow them to unleash their artistic and creative talents. You can't go wrong with these fun and appealing crafts and your students will love creating their own Sea of Knowledge !
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Ranger Rick's Nature Scope: Diving Into Oceans
"Forests of the Sea"

Let your students turn part of the classroom into their own undersea forest. Use streamers, constructions paper, and pipe cleaners to build a kelp forest. Then, learn about the many creatures of the sea by creating kelp characters to inhabit your forest.






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Ranger Rick's Nature Scope: Dving Into Oceans
"Jazzy Jellyfish"

Use paper plates and thing party ribbon to create beautiful jellyfish. Your students will have fun making and playing with these colorful creatures as they learn about the different kinds of jellyfish.
Aug/Sep
2001
p.4-9

The Mailbox Kindergarten
"Make a Splash in Kindergarten"

Welcome new students to class with an inviting door covered in fish-shaped name tags. This and many more decorating ideas are included in this great source.

    
PERIODICALS
Fish Paper Plate Craft
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/animals/fish/

A paper plate fish? Use your imagination
and create these adorable, wide mouthed fish
to hang in your classroom.

CD ROM Fish Craft
http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blcdfish.htm






What do you do with your old CD's? Learn how to make beautiful CD ROM fish that will catch and reflect the light! Follw the directions at this website, and turn your classroom into a sea of radiance!


Paper Plate Starfish Craft
http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/paperplate.html

Use the patterns provided at this website to make amazing paper plate starfish. Students will love creating these colorfully textured sea creatures.

Rainbow Fish
http://www.free-printables.com/archive/Animals/Fish





Bubble Wrap? You bet!!! Decorate your classroom using this website to create colorful fish covered in "bubbly" scales.

Paper Plate Oyster
http://members.tripod.com/khah1994/AprilsDaycare/id50.html

Your students will have a "pearl" of a
time making this creature! With just a
paper plate and a cotton ball, you can
create an oyster with your very own
pearl inside.

Goldfish Craft
http://familycrafts.about.com/library/projects/blgfishcr1.htm

Make simple Goldfish by just cutting squares of colored tissue paper and gluing them onto a fish shape. You will have a school of Goldfish swimming through your classroom after your students are finished with this craft.




Life Size Whale
http://www.freekidcrafts.com/baby_beluga.html

Have a "whale of a tale" time when you stuff a large trash bag with newspaper to create your very own classroom whale.








WEBSITES
MANIPULATIVES
Science 111 Ocean Life Floor Puzzle

Science 123
Seashore Giant Floor Puzzle
  Have students put these puzzles together to leave out on display. The beautiful pictures are sure to add to the ocean experience in your classroom.

Science 48
(c. 1-4)		 Inflatable Lavender Fish

Science 49
(c. 1-4)		 Inflatable Yellow Fish
  Hange these adorable inflatable fish around your classroom as your students learn about existence under the sea.
PUPPETS
Science 113

 Blue Fish Puppet
Science 50 Octopus Puppet
 
Create variety in your homemade ocean with these puppets. Display this sparkling blue fish and teal octopus for your students to see and play with.
BIG BOOKS
Curr/El
Big Books
C689
rb
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The Magic School Bus: On the Ocean Floor
by Joanna Cole

Read this amazing book about discovery to your class, and leave it out on display. Students will love reading and looking at the detailed illustrations in their spare time to refresh their learning.
POSTERS
Check out these beautifully detailed and educational posters! Your students will love these informative and intriguing visual aids displayed around the classroom!
Science 4




 Cetaceans (whales and dolphins)
Science 81




 Molusks and Crustaceans
Science 84




 Sharks
Science 92




 Tropical Salt Water Fish




Science 119




 Life in the Coral Reef




SEAWORTHY SUGGESTIONS
Cover the classroom windows with pieces of blue celophane.
Beautify your walls with a variety of fish cut from fluorescent poster board and decorate them with fluorescent paints.
Make waves across your classroom ceiling using blue crepe paper or fabric strips.

Set up a discovery center for exploring seashells. Fill a kiddie pool with sand and bury a variety of shells.
The Mailbox Kindergarten
Aug/Sep 2001
OTHER FUN IDEAS!!!
Create a wave border around your classroom with blue butcher paper.
Cut your own coral reef from cardboard and use bright colored paints ot decorate and add texture. Display the coral against blue butcher paper giving it the appearance of being in the ocean.
Make Sea Urchins with styrophoam balls and toothpics.
Display a sunken treasure chest at the bottom of your classroom ocean. Use a small wooden box, and embellish it with overflowing plastic gold coins and gold streamers.
Add texture to any fish craft by using Elmer's glue over a colored or painted surface.
Created by Kristi Tuita Fall 2003

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