Junior Veterinarians School-Age Summer Camp 2014 Monday s Lesson Plan: Marine Animals

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1 Junior Veterinarians School-Age Summer Camp 2014 Monday s Lesson Plan: Marine Animals TIME 6:00-9:00 9:00-9:45 ACTIVITY EARLY DROP- OFF: Students will play games and puzzles relating to the day s theme until the rest of the campers arrive. READY, SET, LEARN: Being a marine veterinarian: You may start off the morning by asking the children what is the first thing that comes to mind when they hear or see the word marine? The children may instantly think about someone who is in the United States Marine Corps. Do any of the children think about the ocean? The word Marine refers to anything of, found in, or produced by the sea. Talk about how marine veterinarians go through the same schooling as any other veterinarian. They must attend college and then continue on to veterinary school. Marine vets do not have to be specialized in marine animals, but it would be helpful to them to gain some experience in a zoo or an aquarium working with the marine animals. Explain how marine vets have to be good swimmers, wear wet suits and some even have to be certified in scuba diving. Marine vets weigh the animal, find its heart rate and body temperature, test blood, test stool, find out how much it eats a day, insert syringes (shots), sometimes daily aftercare is necessary. A lot of this must be done in the water, therefore making a marine animal veterinarian s job a lot harder than small animal vets. *After talking about Marine Veterinarians ask the children to think of 3 things that are of, found in, or produced by the sea. 9:45-10:15 HANDS ON ACTIVITY: Sea Turtle Craft Before starting this craft talk to the children about sea turtles. Please see the attached page about sea turtles. Materials you will need: -small paper bowl -small paper plate -green paint -paint brush -green and brown paper

2 -scissors -glue -stapler -black marker -wiggly eyes Directions: 1. Turn your small paper bowl upside down and paint the entire bottom of it with green paint. Let it dry completely. 2. While your paint is drying, have the children take to premade templates for the turtles head, arms, and feet and trace them on green construction paper. They can them cut them out. You may want to make some templates on cardstock for the kids to use! 3. Then cut out several small squares out of your brown and green paper. 5. At this point, your paper bowls should be dry or close enough that you can move on to the next step. Spread glue all over the paper bowl and place your small squares all over to make the turtle's shell. Let it dry. 6. Now it is time to assemble the sea turtle together. We will be sandwiching the turtle shell, the turtle pieces and the small paper plate together, just like in the picture below, and then stapling it shut. 10:15-10:30 BREAK/SNACK: Octopus Snack

3 10:30-11:15 11:15-11:45 One large marshmallow, 8 pretzel sticks and 2 raisins SPARK: The Good Ship SPARK Please see GREAT GAMES page #3 in the SPARK binder. HANDS ON ACTIVITY: Jellyfish Art Supplies: 1 sheet of thin white gift wrap tissue paper (or perhaps used dryer sheets?) 1 piece of blue paper Grey yarn Glue stick Scissors Pencil White glue Jellyfish body patterns 1. Have the children trace the jellyfish pattern onto the tissue wrap or dryer sheets. 2. Once cut, use a glue stick and layer the tissue paper onto the blue paper to make the jellyfish. 3. Lastly, cut and attach the random lengths of grey yarn at the bottom of each jelly as stingers. 11:45-12:30 BREAK/LUNCH HANDS-ON ACTIVITY: Create an Ocean in a Bottle 12:30-1:15 Watching the waves move back and forth, splashing and tumbling shells along the

4 beach can be mesmerizing. The natural sway of the water is soothing and exciting at the same time. Waves are energy in motion. The tides are caused by the pull of the moon's gravity on the earth's water as the earth turns. Every person who has walked along the beach wonders what will wash up on the shore with the next wave? This activity creates an ocean in a jar complete with waves, and will entrance your child with the magic of the ocean. What You Need: Jar or glass bottle Hot glue gun Water Vegetable oil Blue food coloring Sand Seashells What You Do: 1. Make sure your jar is washed out and clean. Spoon some sand into the jar. 2. Add water until ½ full. Add 1 drop of blue food coloring or more until you get a color you like. 3. Add a few shells for your "ocean". 4. Add vegetable oil until almost full. Leave a small space for air at the top. 5. Take your hot glue gun and put glue around the lid of the bottle and then place the lid on the bottle. Turn your ocean on its side and watch the waves go back and forth. Watch the sand gently move as the waves go by. Shake up the bottle. What happens to the sand? What happens to the shells? Does the entire sand move as the waves move or just a little at a time? Your ocean in a jar is too small to mimic the tidal patterns of the real ocean but will offer a great opportunity to see the effects of energy in motion. 1:15-2:00 CHARACTER BUILDING EXERCISE- Team Mural Talk to the children about being fair and working together. The activity that the

5 children are going to do will help them learn the importance of doing your part as a part of a team. This activity should teach children that working together and treating everyone with fairness is the best way to have fun. Learning how to play fair will help children interact more successfully in both the home and learning environment. Have you ever been part of a team? A team is made up of more than one person that works together to do something. You and a friend can have a team or you and many others can get together to make an even bigger team! It's like a baseball team, basketball team or team that you might have on the playground when you divide up into groups at playtime. Playing fair and working together is what teamwork is all about! Do you know anyone on a real team? This activity promotes teamwork and cooperative learning by encouraging children to share ideas, space and materials to produce a creative mural. Materials: Paper large enough for two or more children to draw on together, colors, markers or paint. Share your ideas, materials and paper to create a fantastic mural. Your mural can be whatever the team decides. This is a fun team effort! After you finish, hang up your mural so that everyone can see what great artists you are! Suggestions: Murals many times illustrate a story or a significant scene. Show pictures of a mural if possible and discuss that it is really special to have the opportunity to create a mural with other great artists! 2:00-2:45 HANDS-ON ACTIVITY: Clay Dolphin *Please see the attachment that talks about being a dolphin trainer. Talk to the children about what a marine veterinarian does to help dolphins. Give each second grader a tub of blue or gray modeling clay to sculpt a dolphin. The children can use pictures of dolphins as guides to sculpt the dolphins. Make dolphin keepsakes by allowing the children to sculpt the dolphins in self-hardening clay instead of play clay. Allow the dolphins to dry and harden overnight. The children can paint the clay using acrylic paints. 2:45-3:00 CLEAN-UP AND GOOD-BYES 3:00-6:00 LATE PICK-UP: Students will play games and puzzles relating to the day s theme until parents/guardians arrive.