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About Crabs
Lesson
No. 1
OBJECTIVES:
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Students
will use the Internet to learn about the Blue Crab.
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Students
will be able to identify the difference between a male and
female Blue Crab.
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Students
will be able to identify the Blue Crab’s predators and prey
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Students
will be able to describe the Blue Crab’s life cycle including
its feeding habits.
BACKGROUND:
This
lesson should be completed prior to the Blue Crab Lab.
This Web site
www.vims.edu/adv/ed/crab/contents.html
will give students an opportunity to learn more about the Blue Crab
before actually seeing it.
DESCRIPTION:
This is Internet activity that will allow children to explore
information regarding the Blue Crab.
The Web site contains many links to more information
regarding Blue Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.
MATERIALS:
Student worksheet
*
Link
to worksheet
Computer w/Internet
PROCEDURE:
1.
Log on to the Web site
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Link
to worksheet
2.
Explore the Site. Allow
students to become familiar.
3.
Introduce worksheet so that students have a purpose when
searching.
4.
Discuss answers.
DISCUSSION
QUESTIONS:
Link
to worksheet
ASSESSMENT:
1.
Try the interactive quiz located on the Web site *
Link
to Quiz
2.
Fill in the blanks game
*Line to SERC Book Page 40 (Quia Game?)
EXTENSION:
Web
Links for Exploring:
Blue Crab Lab (Link
to Blue Crab Lab Lesson)
ELA: Have students
write a fictional story as if they were a Blue Crab.
Challenge
them to use as many vocabulary words in their stories as possible.
Ex: Claws, crustaceans, watermen, scavenger, molting,
decapods, etc.
Math: Draw a Blue Crab
to scale based on the measurements given on the Web site.
SS: Locate the
Chesapeake Bay on a map and compare it to where your students live.
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