

360° Lesson Plans
Fortify your current science scope and sequence with a 360° perspective of life beneath the waves. Each lesson plan is built around a unique 360° video and is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and includes applicable math and language arts Common Core State Standards. Immerse your students into tropical coral reefs, ancient shipwrecks, dense kelp forests, and fast-moving currents as you explore the ocean in 360°.
K-2 Lesson Plans

Space for All - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will observe and describe the adaptations living things have to survive in unique habitats.

Shipwrecked: Observations of an Underwater Habitat - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will compare and contrast marine environments before and after a shipwreck.

A Fish Can. Can you? - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will compare and contrast the needs of living things.

Survival on a Coral Reef - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will infer the environment of various living things and how each might use its environment to meet its needs.

Water, Water, Everywhere? - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will compare how humans in different parts of the world meet the basic need for water and identify ways that water can be conserved.

Water, Make it Move! - Kindergarten
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Add to CartStudents will plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths of moving water on the motion of an object.

Coral Restoration - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will devise a device that can be used for planting coral to restore a reef.

Animal Design - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will compare and contrast the interactions of manta rays and scuba divers.

Energy From the Sun - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will create a model of a structure capable of collecting energy from the sun.

New Places to Grow - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe a WWII shipwreck and discuss how humans impact coral reef ecosystems.

Make it Better - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will be presented with a problem and working in groups will design a solution to the problem.

Now You See It - 1st Grade
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Add to CartStudents will make observations to support evidence-based accounts that objects can only be seen when illuminated.

Designing a Village - 2nd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will design, build, and test a structure based on a problem they need to solve.

Designing a Better Way - 2nd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will begin to understand the impacts of illegal fishing, then will work together to draw or design a new or modified net to reduce bycatch.

Here and There - 2nd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will compare and contrast the plants and animals found in various habitats.

Land Under Sea - 2nd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will create a model of their own island complete with various landforms.


Where Does It Live? - 2nd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will organize and classify marine and terrestrial animals.
3-5 Lesson Plans

On Land and In Sea - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will create a model of a marine and terrestrial animal then compare how each gets around.

Finding Solutions - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will compare how humans in different parts of the world meet the basic need for water, then generate and compare possible solutions for acquiring freshwater from a well.

Creating Shipwreck Models - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will build a model depicting the animals commonly found on and around shipwrecks and explain why those animals are found there.

Plant and Animal Adaptations - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe that the traits of living things can be influenced by the environment.

Water in Motion - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object using water.

Who Will Thrive? - 3rd Grade
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Add to CartStudents will construct an argument to determine which organism is better suited for life in the ocean.

Changes Over Time - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will compare changes to man-made and natural structures over time.

Engineering Improvements - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will be presented with a design problem and working together will design a solution to the problem.

Forests of the Sea - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will describe, illustrate, and explain the external parts of kelp.

Saving the Reef - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will design a solution to one of the problems facing coral reefs today.

Think Like a Manta - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe the feeding behavior of manta rays, then develop a model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it solve a given problem.

Light on a Reef - 4th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will make observations to support evidence that light can be transferred from place to place.

Earth Changes - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will model how Earth’s spheres (geosphere, bioshpere, hydrosphere, atmosphere) interact.

A New Design - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will learn about bycatch and illegal fishing, then will design or illustrate a new or modified fishing apparatus to reduce bycatch.

Life on a Coral Reef - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will make observations about plants, animals, and decomposers in a marine ecosystem.

Village Improvements - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will devise a solution to a problem they perceive in the local village.

Man-Made Habitats - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will explore different ways communities protect Earth’s resources.

Matter in the Sea - 5th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will design a model to describe the movement of matter through a marine environment.
6-8 Lesson Plans

Bridging the Grand Canyon - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will identify a problem and begin identifying and discussing solutions, and the limitations and implications of those solutions.

Creating Biodiversity - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe a WWII shipwreck in the Solomon Islands, discuss how humans impact marine biodiversity, then design their own artificial reef.

Color Scattering - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will describe how light is absorbed in the ocean and explain why the ocean appears blue.

Fishing for the Future - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will discuss bycatch and the impacts this practice has on the marine ecosystem, then discuss ways to improve current fishing strategies.

Objects in Motion - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object using water.

Energy Flow - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will develop a model to describe the flow of energy through an ecosystem.

Water, Water (not) Everywhere - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe, describe, and communicate their findings of a desert ecosystem.

Underwater Photosynthesis - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will review photosynthesis, discuss and identify terrestrial and marine autotrophs, then diagram the process.

Shipwrecked! - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will investigate the impacts of a shipwreck to determine both the positive and negative impacts to the environment.

Weather and Erosion - 6th-8th Grade
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Add to CartStudents will observe the long-term impact of moving water on land, then discuss the difference between weathering and erosion and how each acts to change the landscape.
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