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Georgia Aquarium Teacher’S Guide Grades 9-12 Georgia Aquarium Teacher’s Guide Grades 9-12 Welcome to Georgia Aquarium! What to Expect on Your Field Trip Using this Teacher’s Guide STEAM Stream: Classroom Lesson Plans Cold Water Quest: Classify and Collaborate Science, Engineering River Scout: Electrifying Eels Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts Pier 225: Now Serving Fish Smoothies! Mathematics, Science, Social Studies Tropical Diver: Chemistry of Coral Science, Fine Arts Ocean Voyager: Take Out the Trash! Mathematics, Science, Social Studies Make a Splash: Games and Puzzles Crossword: Animal Collectives Word Search: Oceans, Seas, Bays and Gulfs Answers are Questions: Aquarium Jeopardy! Beneath the Waves: Additional Resources Go Figure! Aquarium Awareness Days Georgia Aquarium: Through the Years Deeper Dive: Curriculum Correlations National: Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy Next Generation Science Standards C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards National Core Arts Standards State: Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida © 2016 Georgia Aquarium: www.georgiaaquarium.org All rights reserved. Except for educational fair use, no portion of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other without explicit prior permission. Multiple copies may only be made by or for the teacher for educational use. Content created by TurnKey Education, Inc. for Georgia Aquarium TurnKey Education, Inc.: www.turnkeyeducation.net 1 Welcome to Georgia Aquarium! What to Expect on Your Field Trip Georgia Aquarium is a must-see field trip Students can learn firsthand about the plight of destination for students (and teachers!) of all this endangered species and the Aquarium’s ages. On your class trip, you will experience one preservation efforts. of the largest indoor ,aquatic habitats and one of the most abundant collections of marine life Tropical Diver is the colorful home to more in the world. than 300 species of fish and other aquatic animals representing Pacific reef ecosystems. Georgia Aquarium is dedicated to global With 164,000 gallons of water, the Pacific leadership in the research and conservation of Barrier Reef habitat is one of the largest living aquatic animals. Since its founding, Georgia reef exhibits in the United States. Look closely. Aquarium has been committed to educating Approximately 25% of the reef wall is live coral. and inspiring current and future generations through the respectful display of marine Southern Company River Scout is an immersive mammals, fish, invertebrates and many other experience showcasing the diversity of aquatic species. Aquarium staff, volunteers and freshwater species around the world. In this partners positively impact the future of our gallery, students walk amidst the waters of an planet by instilling in your students an overhead river to discover the incredible variety appreciation for these extraordinary animals of animals found in the lakes and rivers of and empowering them to become advocates on Africa, South America, Asia and right here in their behalf. Georgia. Watch out for the piranha! The seven distinct galleries and more than 100 SunTrust Pier 225 is home to the charismatic exhibits within Georgia Aquarium represent California sea lion. These playful pinnipeds (the aquatic environments ranging from arctic to name for marine mammals that have front and tropical waters. Your students will discover a rear flippers) and their dedicated trainers give diverse assortment of animals sure to amaze, students the chance to see training activities inspire and engage them like never before. firsthand while they learn about sea lion conservation and what they can do to help. Ocean Voyager Built by The Home Depot is the largest exhibit at Georgia Aquarium and Upstairs in Aquanaut Adventure: A Discovery represents “our one world ocean.” The habitat Zone, your students will navigate through a holds 6.3 million gallons of water and features series of activities and challenges. Along the the whale shark, which is the largest fish in the way, they will learn about aquatic animals and world, and the only manta rays in a U.S. ecosystems to become a certified “Georgia aquarium. This is also where you can spot Tank, Aquarium Aquanaut!” the 450-pound sea turtle! AT&T Dolphin Tales features an educational In Cold Water Quest, you will see animals from presentation that shows your class how the arctic regions and temperate seas, including incredible dolphins at Georgia Aquarium are beluga whales, southern sea otters and African trained and cared for and how to protect penguins. If you are lucky, you may see a dolphins in their natural habitat. In addition, the penguin waddling by during your visit. Trainers newly renovated 4D Funbelievable Theater lead several African penguins on a daily Waddle employs interactive seats and special effects Walk across the main Atrium. built into the theater itself. There is a rotating 2 series of 20-minute films based on animated engineering, the arts and math) learning at theatrical releases. Your field trip tickets work, both above the ground and under the include the theater and all animal galleries and water. You will find that you can use the topic presentations. Please know that presentations of aquatic life, along with the enriching are subject to availability and are on a first experiences at the Aquarium itself, to connect come, first served basis. the educational themes of the galleries to your national and local STEAM curricula and content Georgia Aquarium offers your students a unique requirements. opportunity to see STEAM (science, technology, 3 Using this Teacher’s Guide As a companion to your experience at Georgia amazing freshwater resident of Georgia Aquarium, this Teacher’s Guide has been Aquarium. created to complement your classroom instruction and make the most of your school In the next lesson, “Pier 225: Now Serving Fish field trip. It contains original, assessable, Smoothies!” students will learn more about the STEAM-related classroom lesson plans for you nutritional needs of sea lions and why to use and share. understanding what they eat in their natural habitat helps rescuers save as many as they can The high School Teacher’s Guide includes during a UME (unusual mortality event). dynamic activities and assignments for students in grades nine through twelve. There are also “Tropical Diver: Chemistry of Coral” includes an Teacher’s Guides for Elementary School and experiment highlighting the effects of ocean Middle School. Each Guide is designed to be acidification on coral reefs followed by a very flexible and used to best meet the needs and creative, and ph-neutral, option to compensate capabilities of your class. You know your for centuries of reef-damaging human activity. students better than anyone else! The fifth lesson plan is “Ocean Voyager: Take Following this Introduction, you will find Out the Trash!” Students will analyze data on “STEAM Stream,” a section consisting of five the single most frequent type of marine interdisciplinary Classroom Lesson Plans, each debris—plastic—and “think globally, act locally” featuring a gallery you will visit on your field trip by designing a marine debris awareness to the Aquarium. The lesson plans begin with campaign specific to their school and instruction pages and answer keys for teachers community. that include a list of the appropriate content areas and skills addressed by the activities in Next, in “Make a Splash,” games and puzzles the lesson. Rounding out the lessons are ready- relate to themes you encounter on your visit to to-copy Student Activity worksheets that center Georgia Aquarium. Included are a crossword, a on key STEAM topics featured on your tour. word search and Aquarium Jeopardy. These are excellent activities for your bus ride to and from The first lesson plan is “Cold Water Quest: the tour or to assign for extra credit as you see Classify and Collaborate.” Students will study fit. Under “Beneath the Waves,” the next four species to learn how they are classified and section in this Teacher’s Guide, you will find named: penguin, whale, otter and octopus. facts and figures, a list of Aquarium awareness Then, they will design and build a new days and a timeline of Aquarium history. enrichment activity for one of these four marine animals based on the requirements and We know how important it is to justify field guidelines provided. trips and document how instructional time is spent outside of your classroom. To that end, “River Scout: Electrifying Eels,” the second this Teacher’s Guide is directly correlated to the lesson plan, presents primary sources to show Common Core State Standards for Mathematics how humans have tried to understand, and English Language Arts, the Next Generation interpret and describe the electric eel. The Science Standards, the C3 Framework for Social selections are accompanied by activities that Studies State Standards and the National Core explore the history, arts and science of this Arts Standards. These correlations are 4 organized by content and grade level. You can classroom experience that is interdisciplinary readily see how they fit into your required and applicable across several grade levels. You curriculum, making it easy to connect a field trip can use this Guide before and after your visit to to Georgia Aquarium with your classroom Georgia Aquarium, year after year.
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