It's shark week - does that excite you, or freak you out a little? Maybe some of both? I was thinking about how our students might feel about sharks this week, so I put together a graph to find out. (Click on the picture for my first freebie, then read on for another!) It's pretty simple, something you could use quickly at the beginning of a shark or ocean unit. Of course, you could follow up by teaching your students about them, and then revisit the graph. How many students do you suppose might feel differently after learning about sharks?
Sharks
really are scary - to me at least. They're also incredibly cool and
amazing - okay, I guess I have to repeat, to me at least.
Of course, we need to practice actually measuring things ourselves (not real sharks, thank you!). This activity uses fish lengths as a non-standard unit of measure.
For slightly older students, I wrote a non-fiction reproducible reader about sharks. To make differentiating easy, there are two versions of the text.
For my younger kiddos, I made this patterning center. I clipped the pattern strips onto ribbon, and the kiddos clip on additional pictures to either match...
...or extend the patterns.
We follow up with cut and paste versions.
Finally, I want to share another freebie with you! This is a very simple reading center, which I like to put in a pocket chart or on a table. I hope you'll download it, and I'd so appreciate you leaving feedback after you do!
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