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Monday 19 June 2017

SHARKS IN THE CLASSROOM

Shark Crafts and Activities


SHARK COLORING BOOK


A shark book you can print out and color in.
OCEAN DIORAMA


Make an ocean scene in a box. Print out the sharks and whales, then color, cut, and hang them in a decorated box.
SCARY SHARK POP-UP CARD


Make a pop-up card that a friend will always remember!

Spelling and Writing Worksheets:
cloze

Sharks: Cloze Activity
Fill in the blanks in the short reading passage using words from the word bank. Or go to the answers.
rewrite the paragraph

Rewrite the Paragraph
about Sharks
Rewrite the paragraph, correcting the capitalization and adding punctuation marks. Or go to the answers.
matching

Great White Shark:
Word Hunt Worksheet
How many words can you make using the letters from "Great White Shark"? Sample answers: target, gash, heart, ... Go to worksheet with 30 blanks or a worksheet with 50 blanks.
poem

Shark Poem - Poetry Prompt
Write a poem about a shark. The lines of the poem begin with: It sees, It hears, It feels, It understands, It moves, It needs, It runs, It wants, It eats, and It dreams.
Shark Thoughts: Writing Prompt
shape poem
shark

Write inside the thought bubble, expressing the thoughts of the shark. Or go to a pdf of the worksheet.
writing prompt

Write Ten Things About Sharks
A one-page printable worksheet. Write ten things about sharks (plus one thing you would like to change).
Sharks: Illustrated Acrostic PoemDraw a shark, then write an acrostic poem about it. Start each line of your poem with the letter on that line. Or go to a pdf of the poem.

Shark: Fact or Opinion? 
Color the picture of the shark, then write 5 facts and 5 opinions about sharks. A fact is supported by evidence and can be proven; an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate. Or go to a pdf of the worksheet (subscribers only).
elephant
Unscramble Adjectives:
Adjectives Describing A Great White Shark 

Unscramble the adjectives describing a great white shark. Go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the worksheet and the answers (site subscribers only).

Math and Graphing Worksheets:
chart

First Grade Math Games - Printable
The student does simple addition problems and letter substitutions to answer a shark question.
graph

Graph Shark Sizes
Graph the lengths of many sharks, then answer simple questions about the data.
table

Sharks: Reading and Understanding Tables 
Use the table to answer the questions about sharks. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf of the quiz and the answers (site members only).

All About Sharks: A Shark Information Site:
Thresher shark

All About Sharks
Learn facts about sharks, see where they live, what they eat, and find out which sharks are the biggest, smallest, fastest, etc.

Shark Printouts to Read and Color:


Shark Anatomy
Label the shark external anatomy diagram.
Answers
shark

Shark:
Printable Read-and-Answer Worksheet
A printable worksheet on sharks with a short text, a labeled picture, definitions to match, and questions to answer. Or go to the answers.


Angelsharks
Bottom-dwelling, relatively harmless sharks with flattened bodies and a blunt snout.
Atlantic Sharpnose shark

Atlantic Sharpnose Shark
A harmless requiem shark with a sharp snout.


Basking Shark
A huge filter feeder and the second largest fish.


Basking Shark

(Simple version)A huge filter feeder and the second largest fish.
Blue shark

Blue Shark
A sleek, fast-swimming shark with blue skin.
Bull shark

Bull Shark
A blunt-nosed, dangerous, gray shark that can also live in fresh water rivers and lakes.
Bull shark

Bull Shark

(Simple version)A blunt-nosed, dangerous, gray shark can live in fresh water rivers and lakes.
Cookiecutter shark

Cookiecutter Shark
A small shark that takes circular bites out of its prey. Also known as the luminous or cigar shark.


Dogfish Shark
Small, very common, relatively harmless sharks found worldwide.


Galapagos Shark
A large predator found near islands in warm water.


Goblin Shark
A bottom-dweller with a long, flattened snout.


Great Hammerhead Shark
Large predators with a hammer-shaped head.


Great White Shark
An enormous, ferocious predator found worldwide.


Great White Shark
Simple Version
Enormous, ferocious predators found worldwide.


Greenland Shark
A large, slow-swimming shark with glow-in-the-dark eyes.


Lemon Shark
Large, yellowish predators found near the surface and at intermediate depths.
Cookiecutter shark

Luminous Shark
A small shark that takes circular bites out of its prey. Also known as the cookiecutter or cigar shark.


Mako Shark
Large predators that are the fastest fish!.


Megalodon
A huge, extinct shark.
Megamouth

Megamouth
A large, filter-feeding shark that was only discovered in 1976.
Nurse shark

Nurse Shark
Large bottom-dwellers with rounded fins.


Orthacanthus
A spined, extinct shark.
Port Jackson shark

Port Jackson Shark
A shark from waters off southern Australia.


Sandtiger Shark (Sand Shark)

A shark that is cannibalistic before birth.
Thresher shark

Thresher Shark
The Thresher Shark is a shark whose tail fin has a greatly elongated upper lobe.
Tiger shark

Tiger Shark
Large predators found worldwide in warm seas.
Whale shark

Whale Shark
The largest fish and a filter feeder that eats tiny marine organisms and small fish.


Zebra Bullhead Shark
A bottom-dwelling shark with zebra-like stripes.

Rays:



Manta Ray
The largest ray.


Ray
Flattened fish that evolved from sharks.

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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/classroom/Classroomweblinks.shtml

Shark Glossary

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ACANTHODIAN

Acanthodians were the earliest jawed vertebrates. These early fish (Class acanthodii) lived from the Ordovician to the Carboniferous period. Although most Acanthodians were small, averaging roughly 5-6 inches (13-15 cm) long, some were much larger (for example, the genus Xylacanthus, known from its huge jaws, is thought to have been perhaps 3 feet (1 m) long). Some Acanthodians may have been primitive shark-like fish.


ACTINOPTERYGII

Ray-finned fish (class Actinopterygii) are the largest group of fish. These bony fish evolved during the very end of the Silurian, about 408 million years ago. These fish dominate the seas today. Sharks are not ray-finned fish.


AMMONITE

Ammonite was an early mollusk, a fast-moving predatory marine invertebrate. These cephalopods are now exinct.


AMNIOTE

Amniotes are animals whose eggs contain an amnion, a membrane that surrounds the embryo and helps retain fluids. Mammals (including whales), birds, dinosaurs, turtles, and lizards are amniotes.

AMPHIBIAN

Amphibians (meaning "double life") are vertebrate animals that live in the water during their early life (breathing through gills), but usually live on land as adults (and breathe with lungs). They include frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc.

AMPHIPODS

Amphipods (meaning "double foot") are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans that live in the water. They are marine invertebrates under an inch long that have an exoskeleton and jointed legs. They are eaten in huge numbers by filter feeders such as the whale shark, the basking shark, the megamouth shark, and baleen whales.

ANADROMOUS

Anadromous means migrating to fresh water (from salt water) to breed. For example, some salmon are anadromous.

ANAL FIN

Anal fins are paired fins near the tail end of some fish. Some sharks have an anal fin, including the follwing orders:CarcharhiniformesLamniformesOrectolobiformesHeterodontiformes, and Hexanchiformes.


ANAPSID

Anapsids include the turtles and their extinct kin. They are distinguished by having no holes in the sides of their skulls.


ANGELSHARK

Squatina, also known as monkfish, are flat-bodied, bottom-dwelling sharks with a blunt snout.

ANTARCTICA

Antarctica is an icy continent around the South Pole.

ANTERIOR

Anterior means located on or near the front of an animal's body.

APLACENTAL VIVIPARITY

Aplacental viviparity (which used to be called ovoviviparity) is when animals hatch from eggs, but the eggs hatch and the babies develop inside the female's body. There is no placenta to nourish the pups. Great white sharks reproduce in this manner.


ARCHITEUTHIS

(pronounced ark-ee-TOO-this) Architeuthis is the giant squid. It is the largest squid and the largest invertebrate (animal without a backbone), but it has never been seen since it lives very deep in the oceans. The largest-known Architeuthis was 57 feet (17.5 m) long. It has eight arms, two longer feeding tentacles, a beak, a large head, and two eyes larger than basketballs! These soft-bodied cephalopods are fast-moving carnivores that catch prey with their tentacles, then poison it with a bite from beak-like jaws. They move by squirting water through a siphon, a type of jet propulsion. Only dead examples of Architeuthis have been found. Its only enemy is the sperm whale who hunts it deep in the ocean.

ARCTIC

The Arctic is the area around the North Pole. There is no land under the arctic ice, but it is home to many animals. The only shark that remains in Arctic waters year-round is the Greenland shark.

ARTHROPODS

Arthropods are a group of animals with exoskeletons made of chitin, segmented bodies and jointed limbs. Insects, arachnids, trilobites, crustaceans (like amphipods, krill and copepods), and others are arthropods.

Atlantic Sharpnose shark
ATLANTIC SHARPNOSE SHARK

The Atlantic Sharpnose Shark (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae) is a harmless, edible, requiem shark (Family Carcharinidae). The Sharpnose is a small, slender shark with 5 gill slits, two dorsal fins, an anal fin, no fin spines, the mouth behind the eyes, and nictitating eyelids. It has a long, sharp snout, black-edged dorsal and caudal fins (which fade with age), and furrowed or wrinkled corners of the mouth. It is brown to olive-gray colored with white countershading on the belly and is from 2 to 4 feet (60-120 cm) long. A carnivore, it eats small fish, mollusks, and shrimp. The sharpnose is viviparous, with litters of 4 to 7 pups. Classification: Order Carcharhiniformes

ATOM

Everything is made up of tiny atoms. An atom is the smallest part of an element that has the properties of that element.

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