EASY and Fun Student Centered Ocean Transformation
Do you teach a nonfiction unit? What if I told you that you can transform your classroom (and spend maybe 15 minutes of your prep) and thats it! AND your students will HELP create it too! Here's what you're going to do:
1. Make the waves
Go to the Dollar Tree and purchase 4-5 blue table cloths. These will be the waves. You drape them from your ceiling. Then search ocean images to trace onto large black bulletin board paper. You will throw these on top of the "waves" to make it look like there are animals floating above them!
2. Create seaweed and sand out of construction paper
Your students can help with this! Simply model how to make squiggle lines to create seaweed and sand. I like to tape these to their lockers or the bottom of the wall! In the picture below, students wanted to make sea anemone for their clown fish to live in!
3. Learn about an ocean animal each day
Each day your students will learn about an ocean animal, write about it AND make a craft. You will put their animal in the sand, seaweed or hang from the ceiling (I just use string and paperclips). At the end of the 2 weeks, your students will have learned about the zones of the ocean, nonfiction text features and so many ocean animals! Want to do it too? Here is my Ocean Unit with the crafts, writing book, bubble maps AND directed drawings!
