Module 10: Aquatic Habitats-Science 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, students will learn to describe the living and nonliving things found in salt water and classify living and nonliving things by where they can be found. They will describe the living and nonliving things found in a wetland and compare saltwater and freshwater habitats. Students will apply concepts of habitats to design an aquatic habitat and plan an aquatic habitat.

Module Materials:

Lesson # Lesson Title Material(s)
1 Salt Water None
2 Wetlands None
3 Aquatic Habitats scissors
glue

Module Objectives:

Lesson # Lesson Title Objective(s)
1 Salt Water
  1. Describe the living and nonliving things found in salt water.
  2. Classify living and nonliving things by where they can be found.
2 Wetlands
  1. Describe the living and nonliving things found in a wetland.
  2. Compare saltwater and freshwater habitats.
3 Aquatic Habitats
  1. Apply concepts of habitats to design an aquatic habitat.
  2. Plan an aquatic habitat.

Module Key Words:

Key Words
habitat
aquatic
salt water
wetland
freshwater
saltwater

Module Assignments:

Lesson # Lesson Title Page # Assignment Title
1 Salt Water 6 Living and Nonliving Ocean Sort Assignment
2 Wetlands 6 Wetland Diagram Assignment
3 Aquatic Habitats 6 Design an Aquatic Habitat Assignment

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson # Lesson Title Notes
1 Salt Water After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain what living and nonliving things can be found in a salt water environment.
2 Wetlands After completing this lesson, ask your student to explain what living and nonliving things can be found in wetlands.
3 Aquatic Habitats After completing this lesson, ask your student to describe how they can build an aquatic habitat.

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title Question
Salt Water
  1. What living and nonliving things can you find in salt water?
Wetlands
  1. What living and nonliving things can you find in wetlands?
Aquatic Habitats
  1. How can you build your own aquatic habitat?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title Video Question
Salt Water A Day at the Beach
  1. What living things did Bianca find at the beach?
  2. What nonliving things did Bianca find at the beach?
Wetlands Freshwater Friends
  1. What living and nonliving things did Priscilla see on her field trip to a wetland?
Aquatic Habitats Aquarium Adventure
  1. What does Bianca learn about aquatic habitats from her visit to the aquarium?

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

  • What is the main idea?
  • What are three things new you learned?
  • How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

# Book Author Lexile Level
1 A Swim Through the Sea Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini
2 Squish!: A Wetland Walk Nancy Luenn

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

# Outing
1 If possible take your student to a local aquatic environment so that they can observe it.