Curriculum Title: Mapping Fish Habitats. Teacher's Guide. Grades 6-10

Publication date: 1992
Cost: $10.00 (does not include shipping)

Written for grades 6-10, students design an aquarium to draw conclusions using basic scientific concepts: predicting, observing, recording, experimenting, analyzing and interpreting. Students also learn fundamental ecological concepts such as ecosystem, habitat, home range, and territory. Through daily observations and experiments, students draw conclusions about fish in their natural environment. Experiments include changing one component of fish habitat and mapping the fish's behavior based on the change.

Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS)
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-642-7771

This curriculum is appropriate for the following grade levels: