Our newest Webs to Whale Nature Tale

The Activities folder includes PDF files of 41 reproducible activities that supplement the interactive lessons, a teaching guide, plus a glossary of terms. The activity pages can be reproduced for use by a parent or a classroom teacher. There are separate folders for math, reading, and science. Use these cross-curricular activities as part of a unit on whales. The activities correlate to state standards in reading and math, as well as science, for grades K-2.

In addition to the materials on the CD-ROM, we post new materials here on the web site periodically. You can download samples of some of the activities with the links below.

Following is a list of the activity pages included in each folder:

LANGUAGE ARTS

• R1 Fishing for Letters: visual discrimination
• R2 O is for Octopus: medial short o
• R3 Who Lives on the Reef?: minibook
• R4 Story Questions: comprehension
• R5 Verbs Are Action Words: vocabulary
• R6 What’s in a Name?: compound words
• R7 Fishing for Words: compound words
• R8 How Alike and How Different: writing
• R9 Coral Reef Poetry: writing a name poem
• R10 What Rhymes?
• R11 What’s Real?

MATH

• M1 Seeing Patterns: identify type of pattern
• M2 Making Patterns: make patterns with fish
• M3 Draw One More: identify and add a specific feature
• M4 Matching Animals: fi nd two that match
• M5 Differences: fi nd one that is different
• M6 Estimating and Counting: estimating number
• M7 Estimating and Grouping: estimating amount
• M8 More or Less
• M9 Symmetry: identify bilateral symmetry
• M10 Measuring: comparing length
• M11 Sorting: by attributes and charting results
• M12 3–D Shapes
• M13 Finding Shapes: circle, square, and triangle
• M14 Fish Tale: word problems
• M15 How Many Animals Did the Diver See? graphing information

SCIENCE

• S1 How Animals Move: Venn diagram
• S2 Make a Bubble Map: graphic organizer
• S3 Who Has a Backbone: sorting activity
• S4 How Animals Eat: comparing animal features
• S5 Matching Animals: find two of same kind
• S6 Who Doesn’t Belong?
• S7 Kinds of Mollusks: sorting activity
• S8 Snail and Octopus Anatomy: identify parts, label diagram
• S9 How Does Suction Work: lesson and experiments
• S10 Reef Critters Scene One: identify reef animals
• S11 Reef Critters Part Three: identify reef animals
• S12 Food Web: identify who eats what
• S13 Camoufl age: art
• S14 Propulsion: experiment
• S15 Snail and Octopus: Venn diagram