ULTIMATE 'SEA SAVING' LESSON PLANS
Our ultimate lesson plans on ocean conservation, marine environment protection and the wonderful world of sharks are the perfect tools to support teaching your students. You can now download three hours worth of pre/post-lesson packs or individual activities for our workshops, tailored to your classes.. These lessons will encourage students to learn about a variety of creatures, habitats and topics that they will experience during their educational visit.
Risk Assessment
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Workshop Lesson Plans
What the Ocean Means (Pre-Visit)
Embark on a journey to explore the significance of our oceans. Students will create a persuasive poster campaign to preserve this invaluable natural resource.
Ocean Pollution (Post-Visit)
Let's reduce, reuse, and recycle waste to protect the oceans. By using less plastic, finding ways to reuse products and recycling, we can prevent pollution and harm to marine life
Layers of the Ocean (Pre-Visit)
The ocean is composed of various layers or zones, and it is incredibly deep. Students have the opportunity to develop sensory maps based on the amount of light each ocean zone receives. They can also conduct an experiment to create a layered "Ocean in a Jar" using liquid density.
Inheritance & Variation (Post-Visit)
This lesson is going to be super helpful in identifying inherited characteristics in living things. You'll learn that variation occurs within offspring as well as across a species, and you'll be able to easily tell the difference between inherited and environmental characteristics.
Incredible Sea Creatures (Pre-Visit)
In this lesson, students get to dive into the wonderful world of sea creatures and the ocean. They'll get to put their thinking caps on and come up with a list of cool questions to ask during their visit to SEA LIFE. Also, they can create Fact Cards for three amazing sea creatures.
Creative Writing (Post-Visit)
How about we get creative and have some fun with SEA LIFE? Students will have the chance to write about their SEA LIFE experience using cool and powerful words to describe their favourite sea creature. They'll also create a poem or short story based on the sea creature they choose, helping to improve their writing skills and have a blast while learning about the amazing world of marine life.
Conservation & Creature Needs edition
That's not my shark... Activities for EYFS
Inspired by That's not my shark... an Usborne touchy-feely book, immerse young learners in a magical ocean world. Dive into the fascinating world of sharks and sea creatures with these EYFS Framework-linked ideas and activities, designed to make the most of your visit and discover the magic that lies beneath the waves at SEA LIFE Birmingham
Ocean Conservation (Pre/Post Visit) 7-13yrs
Protecting our World's Oceans... with three hours worth of content pre and post an educational visit these lessons will encourage pupils to appreciate the importance of protecting our oceans, raise awareness of their own relationship with the ocean and appreciate how their daily actions can positively or negatively affect the marine environment.