Ocean Animals

Concept map

Animals

Sarah Mack

Sharks
Books:
Two informational
books: Sharks by:

Jellyfish
Books:
One informational
book: Jellyfish

Catriona Clarke
and Sharks! by:
Anne Schreiber

and Other
Stingers By:
Joseph Brennan

Characteristics:

Characteristics:
-stingers
- no hearts or brain
-eat fish and other
small sea animals
-lions mane largest
jellyfish
-jelly-like and clear
bodies
-Predator
-Carnivores
-invertebrate

-big as a school
bus
-whale shark is
the biggest shark
-pups baby
sharks
-eat fish, seals,
sometimes
dolphins
-Predator
-Carnivore
-Fish
Activities:
-shark project
-write a shark fact
-National
Geographic Kids
website for sharks

Activities:
-jellyfish art project
-writing facts about
jellyfish
National
Geographic Kids
website for
jellyfish

Sea Turtle
Books:
Three
informational
books: Sea Turtles
by: Gail Gibbons,
Endangered Sea
Turtles by: Bobbie
Kalman and I am a
Sea Turtle by:
Darlene R. Stille
Characteristics:
-hard shell of
different colors:
orange, brown,
gray, green.
-hatched from an
egg in the sand
-leatherback is the
largest sea turtle
-eat plankton, fish,
shrimp
-omnivores
-reptiles
Activities:
-Sea turtle art
project
-writing about sea
turtles
- National
Geographic Kids
website for sea
turtles

Dolphin
Books:
Two
informational
books: Dolphins:
by Donna Bailey
and I Am a
Dolphin by:
Darlene R. Stille
Characteristics:
-dolphins can
leap out of the
water
-swim fast
-half of the brain
sleeps and other
half stays awake
-use echolocation
to navigate and
call other
-baby dolphin is
a calf
-eat fish, turtles,
small plants
-ocra largest
dolphin
-mammals
-carnivores
Activites:
-Label dolphin
worksheet
-write three facts
about dolphins
National
Geographic Kids
website for
dolphins