Linda F. Malanson
Section A
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Hermit Crab Fish Game—Pictures were duplicated so there would be four of each so a “fish” card game could be played with them.
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Hermit Crab Concentration Game—Pictures from
A House for Hermit Crab
are used here, too. Match the picture with the definition. Picture and definition cards are: Sea Anemones, Starfish, Corals, Snails, Sea Urchins and Lanternfish.
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Section B
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Seashore Concentration Game—Similar to Hermit Crab Concentration. (Pictures can be purchased through the AIMS Education Foundation newsletter May/June 1892.) I do not use all the cards at once with the primary grades since there are too many. Vocabulary cards follow.
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Seaweed Bingo—I have fashioned many eight-block bingo cards for the children from the same pictures. The bingo games can be one horizontal line, four corners at the end or in a block or a cover-all. Just specify which one you are playing.
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ACTIVITY—CUT UP THE WORLD
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DIRECTIONS:
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1. Cut a pizza into quarters.
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2. Put aside three of the quarters. What do these represent? The oceans of our world, the Blue Planet!
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3. The fraction left is 1/4. Slice it in half. Set aside one of the halves. This is the part that people can’t live or work on. The poles, deserts, swamps, high mountains, etc.
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4. What’s left? What is left is 1/8. This is where the humans live, but not necessarily where they grow their food.
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5. Slice 1/8 piece into four sections. Put aside three of them. What’s left? (1/32)
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6. The three pieces you set aside represent the places where the soil is too poor to farm—where it’s too rocky, wet, cold or steep to produce food. They also represent the cities, houses, highways, shopping malls, schools, parks, factories, parking lots and miniature golf courses where people live, play and work—but CANNOT grow any food.
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7. Take your 1/32 piece that’s left. Look at this scrap of pizza. It represents the farmable surface topsoil of our planet, the thin skin of the of the Earth’s crust upon which humankind totally depends.
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IT IS LESS THAN 5 FEET DEEP AND IT IS QUITE A
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FIXED AMOUNT OF FOOD-PRODUCING LAND.
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Now we are going to eat the rest of the pizza, but we
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are going to save this tiny piece of pizza.
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WE WILL TREAT IT AS IF OUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT!!!