Lesson 1 Ж Infants and First Class
Me and the Sea: In Our Aquarium
ACTIVITY: “Where do I live?” Matching Exercise
A game to see what creatures and other living things we might find in our aquarium and where we
might find them.
This activity will help the children to think about all the different places to live in an aquarium, to
reflect on what they might have observed previously in the aquarium, to hypothesise about where a
creature might be found, and to know where to look for them in the aquarium.
Objective:
To put the laminated images of the creatures in the correct habitat zone of the
aquarium.
Time:
10 minutes
Materials:
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“Me and the Sea: In Our Aquarium” Presentation slide 16
Laminated “what” cards (flatfish, starfish, limpet, hermit crab, wrasse, prawn, anemone,
blenny, seaweed, algae)
White tack
Method:
1) Bring up the aquarium slide (slide 16 in presentation) on the whiteboard. Discuss where all the different places are in the aquarium that something might live.
2) Hand out the laminated “what” photos, to groups of 2-4 (or more, at teacher’s discretion) students. Ask them to work together to figure out where they think that things (aquatic creature, seaweed or algae) would live. Note there are clues on the back of each laminated photo, if required.
3) Ask them, one group at a time, to come up to the image and stick their creature to the right spot
on the aquarium, using white tack.
What
Area it would live (habitat zone)
4) Discuss.
Guide for teachers:
Habitat zones could include on the bottom, on/in the rocks, in the seaweed, in
the open water, on the walls of the
aquarium or other surfaces.
Most likely locations are in the table to
the right.
Flatfish
Sandy Bottom (in/under the sand!)
Starfish
On the bottom, or the rocks
Limpet
On the rocks
Hermit Crab On the bottom, or the rocks
Wrasse
Open Water
Prawn
On the bottom, or the rocks, or in the seaweed
Anemone
On the rocks
Blenny
Hiding in the rocks or the seaweed
Seaweed
On a rock
Algae
On any surface