Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate investigable questions about why people explore the sea using poems, stories, artworks, and informational texts as evidence.
Students will be able to analyze details in ocean artworks and texts to explain how artists and writers show the sea as beautiful, powerful, or mysterious.
Students will be able to collect and record observations from informational texts about ocean life, food chains, and ocean sunlight in a research notebook.
Students will be able to interpret how sun, tiny plants, and ocean animals are connected in a food chain to support life in the sea.
Students will be able to compare how scientists use tools, observation, and repeated checking to study sharks, giant squid, and other ocean animals.
Students will be able to create and revise labeled drawings and captions that show what they learned from ocean texts and investigations.
Students will be able to collaborate to present evidence-based explanations for why people explore the sea during a gallery walk.
Products
Ocean Investigation Notebook
Students complete a research notebook that records one investigable question, notes from texts and art, simple observations, and a personal explanation of why people explore the sea. The notebook shows individual understanding through evidence gathering, sketches, captions, and a short written conclusion.
Seas of Wonder Museum Display and Gallery Walk Presentation
Teams create a formal class museum display with paired pages, captions, labels, and a brief oral presentation that answers why people explore the sea. The display must combine each member’s evidence and explain what the team learned, including any different or unexpected findings.
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